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storm-swept

storm-swept adjective: usually relating to coastlines or sea areas affected by storms that sweep in or across.

Adjective

storm-swept (comparative more storm-swept, superlative most storm-swept)

  1. (literary) Usually relating to coastlines or sea areas affected by storms that sweep in or across.
    • With the sea below us grey and storm swept, and the coast line vague in the driving rain, we forged our way up the bank to breast the summit at 37 m.p.h.1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8

Forms of storm-swept

comparativemore storm-swept
superlativemost storm-swept
alternative formstorm swept
alternative formstormswept

Questions about storm-swept

What does storm-swept mean?
Storm-swept means usually relating to coastlines or sea areas affected by storms that sweep in or across.
What part of speech is storm-swept?
Storm-swept is an adjective.

Words near storm-swept in the dictionary

  1. storm-proof
  2. storm-racked
  3. storm-relative helicity
  4. storm-ridden
  5. storm-stayed
  6. storm-swept
  7. storm-trooper
  8. storm-troopers
  9. storm-voice
  10. storm-voices
  11. storm-wracked

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