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stormswept

stormswept is the alternative form of storm-swept.

Meaning of storm-swept

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 stormswept

comparativemore stormswept
superlativemost stormswept

Questions about stormswept

What is stormswept the alternative form of?
Stormswept is the alternative form of storm-swept.

Words near stormswept in the dictionary

  1. storms off
  2. storms out
  3. storms out of the blocks
  4. Stormses
  5. stormstayed
  6. stormswept
  7. stormtide
  8. stormtides
  9. stormtossed
  10. stormtost
  11. stormtrack

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stormswept (page history and authors); storm-swept (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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