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weatherworn en · ADJ

Etymology

From weather + worn.

Meanings

1. Synonym of weather-beaten.
   • Old Heck said again, his weatherworn features working convulsively, "it's more than a mortal man can endure and stand!" 1920, Earl Wayland Bowman, The Ramblin' Kid:
   • His hair, gray as the underwing of the owl whose note he forged, straggled in uncut disarray from under the drooping rim of a battered and weatherworn hat. 1915, James Oliver Curwood, The Hunted Woman:
   • A weather-worn Vauxhall thirty landaulette was awaiting us, and bumped us for six or seven miles over by-paths and lanes which, in spite of their natural seclusion, were deeply rutted and showed every sign of heavy traffic. 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:

Forms

Synonyms

weather-beaten

Translations (1)

hu viharvert (damaged or eroded by the weather)