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weather-beaten en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn or damaged by exposure to the weather or the outdoors, especially to severe weather.
   • 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 πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá], →ISBN, page 3:
   • An old man with a weather-beaten face told them that the shack was used seasonally by fishermen.
   • Near-synonym: weathered
   • Farther down the beach they saw a weather-beaten shack and an upturned boat.
   • 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:

Forms

Relateds

worse for wear · worn-out · weatherbeaten · sunbleached · faded · bleached · broken-down

Synonyms

weatherworn · weathered

Translations (8)

mi hiwi (damaged by exposure to the weather) · fa باد و باران خورده (damaged by exposure to the weather) · hu viharvert (damaged by exposure to the weather) · el ανεμοδαρμένος (damaged by exposure to the weather) · bg повреден от атмосферни влияния (damaged by exposure to the weather) · sv väderbiten (damaged by exposure to the weather) · ja 風雨にさらされた (damaged by exposure to the weather) · he מֻכֶּה סַעַר (damaged by exposure to the weather)