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FRECKLE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin

Synonyms:

freckle; lentigo

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("freckle" is a kind of...):

macula; macule (a patch of skin that is discolored but not usually elevated; caused by various diseases)

Holonyms ("freckle" is a part of...):

cutis; skin; tegument (a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch)

Derivation:

freckle (mark with freckles)

freckle (become freckled)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mark with freckles

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "freckle" is one way to...):

spot (mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

freckle (a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Become freckled

Example:

I freckle easily

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "freckle" is one way to...):

spot (become spotted)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

freckle (a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin)

Credits

 Context examples: 

You must have heard him notice Mrs Clay's freckles.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Freckles do not disgust me so very much as they do him.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

That tooth of her's and those freckles.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Mrs Clay had freckles, and a projecting tooth, and a clumsy wrist, which he was continually making severe remarks upon, in her absence; but she was young, and certainly altogether well-looking, and possessed, in an acute mind and assiduous pleasing manners, infinitely more dangerous attractions than any merely personal might have been.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)