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rawness

2018年11月29日 | 英単語
Reader's Digest 10月号の記事 'Old-Time Doctor Remedies that Work' からの引用です。
Blisters
Try: Petroleus Jelly
The rawness from blisters can be painful enough, but chafing can iritate them further. Clean a blister with soap and water, and then reduce friction by applying petroleum jelly to the inflated area and keeping it covered with a bandage.
以前(2/5/2009)形容詞の "raw" を取り上げましたが名詞形は "rawness" となるのですね。一応辞書の説明を見ます。一応辞書の説明を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: (of a part of the body) red and painful, especially as the result of skin abrasion.: he scrubbed his hands until they were raw

・Vocabulary.com: a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched): after taking a cold, rawness of the larynx and trachea come on

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