Definition of "chapped"

chapped

/t͡ʃæpt/

adjective
comparative more chapped, superlative most chapped
1. (of skin) Dry and flaky due to excessive evaporation of water from its surface.
  Quotations
  For chapped lips, or chapped nipples, the tincture of catechu, or benjamin, […] / For severely chapped hands or face, the oxide of zinc ointment or camphor […]
  1854, Sir Erasmus Wilson, Healthy skin: a popular treatise on the skin and hair, their preservation and management
  […] his nose and his chubby cheeks were chapped and red with cold.
  1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
  His lips were chapped and lined with a ghostly purple fringe.
  2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, N.Y: Vintage Books, page 134
2. (in combination) Having chaps, or jaws, of a specified kind.
  Quotations
  this wide-chapped rascal
  1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
verb
1. simple past and past participle of chap