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windswept en · ADJ

Etymology

From wind + swept.

Meanings

1. Exposed to the winds.
   • 20 January 2017, Donald Trump, Inauguration Speech And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty Creator.
   • We struggled over the windswept moorland.
   • A noteworthy engineering feature on this line was the Owencarrow Viaduct, situated in one of the most windswept portions of the line. On January 30, 1925, a train was blown off the viaduct during a gale, and thereafter trains were prohibited from crossing when the wind exceeded a certain velocity. 1953 October, H. C. Casserley, “Closure of the Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 703:
   • No trees have grown on the windswept Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean for tens of thousands of years — just shrubs and other low-lying vegetation. That’s why a recent arboreal discovery nearly 20 feet (6 meters) beneath the ground caught researchers’ attention. 2024 September 27, Katie Hunt, “Scientists discover hidden ancient forest on treeless island”, in CNN:

Forms

Relateds

storm-swept

Translations (9)

mi whakapūangiangi (exposed to wind) · fr battu par les vents (exposed to wind) · vi lộng gió (exposed to wind) · sv vindpinad (exposed to wind) · grc λεπώδης (exposed to wind) · cmn 狂風肆虐的 /狂风肆虐的 (exposed to wind) · hu széljárta (exposed to wind) · fi tuulenpieksemä (exposed to wind) · hu szeles (exposed to wind)