Meaning & use
Tanned
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Having skin darkened by exposure to the sun, or, of animal hide, treated and converted into leather.
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After two weeks on the beach, he returned home noticeably tanned.
The workshop used tanned cowhide to make sturdy leather belts.
A note on using this word
The leather-making sense is the older meaning; the sun-darkened skin sense developed later by analogy.
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Another way to use it
2. adjective
Punished by beating (informal, dated).
He got his hide tanned for sneaking out at night.
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