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# chilblains

«chilblains» in Mova's school dictionary: **Painful, itchy red or purple swellings on the toes…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a chilblain, chilblains – usually plural)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Painful, itchy red or purple swellings on the toes, fingers, ears or nose, caused when skin gets very cold and then warms up too fast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chilblains/#m1)

2) A common winter complaint in old times, when houses were cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chilblains/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In old stories children with chilblains sit by the fire in winter. In science, cold makes small blood vessels narrow; warming too quickly makes them swell and leak, causing chilblains. Safety and health: keep feet and hands warm and dry, wear socks and gloves, warm up slowly – not with your feet right on a heater. They usually heal on their own.

### examples

- In the cold farmhouse, the children had chilblains on their toes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chilblains/#x1)
- Wear thick socks so you don't get chilblains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chilblains/#x2)
- Gran's chilblains itch every winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chilblains/#x3)
- Don't warm cold feet too quickly by the fire, or you may get chilblains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chilblains/#x4)
- My fingers were swollen with chilblains after building the snowman. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chilblains/#x5)
- Chilblains were common when houses had no heating. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chilblains/#x6)

### note

Usually plural. Said «CHIL-blaynz». Not the same as frostbite, which is more serious freezing of the skin.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chilblains» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chilblains/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.