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windworn

windworn adjective: worn or smoothed by the action of wind erosion.

Adjective

windworn (comparative more windworn, superlative most windworn)

  1. Worn or smoothed by the action of wind erosion.
    • windworn rocks
    • One such rock touched by the road, consisted of porphyrite, another of volcanic tuff; the ground is hard, the gravel glassy lava, all more or less windworn. […] the plain, an extremely flat depression, a high-land desert, low, flat, levelled, windworn, weathered and disintegrating rocks, a country...1917, Sven Anders Hedin, Southern Tibet: Discoveries in Former Times Compared with My Own Researches in 1906-1908, page 337

Examples of windworn in a sentence

  • […] the Józefów gravels are strongly windworn, whereas the sands and gravels at Katarzynów and Działki Niesułkowskie fail to show any such characteristics.1961, International Association for Quaternary Research. Congress, Guide-book of Excursion A-E., page 25:
  • The acid smoke has soured the fields, / And browned the few and windworn flowers; […]1968(?), George Orwell, "On a Ruined Farm near the His Master's Voice Gramophone Factory" (poem), quoted in 2013, Circles and Diagonals...

Forms of windworn

comparativemore windworn
superlativemost windworn
alternative formwind-worn

Origin of windworn

From wind + worn.

Questions about windworn

What does windworn mean?
Windworn means worn or smoothed by the action of wind erosion.
How do you use windworn in a sentence?
[…] the Józefów gravels are strongly windworn, whereas the sands and gravels at Katarzynów and Działki Niesułkowskie fail to show any such characteristics.
What part of speech is windworn?
Windworn is an adjective.

Words near windworn in the dictionary

  1. windway
  2. windways
  3. windwheel
  4. windwheels
  5. windwise
  6. windworn
  7. windy
  8. Windy City
  9. windy pasties
  10. windy pasty
  11. wine

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