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windblown en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈwɪndˌbloʊn/ (General-American)

Etymology

From wind + blown.

Meanings

  1. (of a tree) Growing in a distorted shape produced by the prevailing winds.
  2. (of seeds, qualifier:leaves etc) Dispersed by the wind.
    • In a patch of sunlit windblown water a fish leaped from the surface. 2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 168:
    • My life was torn like wind-blown sand / Then a rock was formed when we held hands 1966, Bobby Hebb, “Sunny”, in Sunny:
  3. (of a person) Having disheveled hair blown about by the wind.

Forms

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wind-blown alternative lexicographic
more windblown Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most windblown Degree=Sup lexicographic

Translations (2)

da vindblæst (windblown, blown by the wind) · nb vindblåst (windblown, blown by the wind)