weather-beaten
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6.6
- adjective
- /ˈwɛðərˌbitn/
:
desgastado por el tiempo
- If he is the oldest member of the troupe, he is also the most forlorn and weather-beaten.
Examples
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A white-brick, weather-beaten building, Old Glory fighting the breeze.
Fiction book (1997) -
Small and weather-beaten, he moved with agility and precision.
Fiction book (1997) -
The admiral is a little weather-beaten, to be sure, but not much.
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Which was proved by her complexion, weather-beaten and lined as a farm worker's.
Fiction book (1990) -
I kept thinking that many of the men looked so much like my grandpa Vogel: lean, angular, weather-beaten.
Blog text (34) -
We meet up with Donald Macaulay, a wiry man with a weather-beaten face and a lilting Lewis accent.
Academic text (2006) -
The shipmaster's weather-beaten face fell; he scratched his beard, puffed his cheeks, and muttered to himself.
Fiction book (1995) -
The song continued in the desert where we find the singer, Peter Madox, a weather-beaten man who is working on the guts of a battered Tiger Moth aeroplane.
Fiction book (1996) -
Trembling, he turned around and found himself looking into the weather-beaten face of a thin, wiry man whose triangular-shaped blue eyes squinted at him from beneath the brim of an old fedora.
Fiction book (1994) -
Her face was cheerless and weather-beaten, like that of an old sailor.
Synonyms
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4.2
Worn and rough after being outside a long time
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2.1
Damaged and showing signs of long use
Made rough and faded by being in the sun, rain and wind for a long time
A surface like skin that is not smooth and feels dry from cold or wind
A thing damaged and worn by storms
Antonyms
How Weathered
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Weather-beaten comes from the two parts weather and beaten, where 'beaten' means 'hit' by the sun, wind, or rain. So something weather-beaten has been worn and made rough by being outside a long time, which is why we use it for skin, wood, or faces that look old and weathered.