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weather-beaten

weather-beaten adjective: beaten or harassed by the weather; worn or damaged by exposure to the weather or the outdoors, especially to severe weather.

Adjective

weather-beaten (comparative more weather-beaten, superlative most weather-beaten)

  1. Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn or damaged by exposure to the weather or the outdoors, especially to severe weather.
    • Near-synonym: weathered
    • Farther down the beach they saw a weather-beaten shack and an upturned boat.

weather-beaten meaning in Tamil and Persian

weather-beaten in Tamil

வெயில், குளிர், காற்று முதலியவற்றில் அடிபட்ட, இவற்றின் தாக்கம், தேய்மானம் தெரிகிற, பழமையான

weather-beaten in Persian

damaged by exposure to the weather
باد و باران خورده bâd-o-bârân xorde

Examples of weather-beaten in a sentence

  • An old man with a weather-beaten face told them that the shack was used seasonally by fishermen.
  • Rasmus was a tall, powerful man, with a weather-beaten, furrowed face of a good-natured expression.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 181:
  • The glass door opened and there entered a thick-set, mud-bespattered, weather-beaten dock laborer with bare head and bare feet.1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 1, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και...

Synonyms of weather-beaten

Forms of weather-beaten

comparativemore weather-beaten
superlativemost weather-beaten

Questions about weather-beaten

What does weather-beaten mean?
Weather-beaten means beaten or harassed by the weather; worn or damaged by exposure to the weather or the outdoors, especially to severe weather.
What is weather-beaten in Tamil?
Weather-beaten in Tamil is வெயில், குளிர், காற்று முதலியவற்றில் அடிபட்ட. See Weather-beaten meaning in Tamil.
How do you use weather-beaten in a sentence?
An old man with a weather-beaten face told them that the shack was used seasonally by fishermen.
What part of speech is weather-beaten?
Weather-beaten is an adjective.

Words near weather-beaten in the dictionary

  1. weather vane
  2. weather vanes
  3. weather verb
  4. weather verbs
  5. weather whiplash
  6. weather-beaten
  7. weather-beatenness
  8. weather-bit
  9. weather-bits
  10. weather-bound
  11. weather-gaw

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