Definition of Chap

of the skin become cracked, rough, or sore, typically through exposure to cold weather; a cracked or sore patch on the skin

Examples of Chap in a sentence

She always carried extra lip balm in her purse during cold weather because the frigid air made her lips chap.  🔊

He had rough and painful patches of skin from where the weather had made his skin chap.  🔊

She wished her lips didn’t chap in the dry weather because the cracked and rough-looking skin wasn’t particularly kissable.  🔊

I slather my cracked, dry skin in layers of lotion when the frigid weather causes it to chap.  🔊

I’d be happy if my lips didn’t chap but for now I have to settle for sore and painful lips.  🔊

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