windswept
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4.9
- adjective
- /ˈwɪndˌswɛpt/
:
azotado por el viento
- Fifteen minutes later, Eric stood alone on the windswept esplanade looking out over New York Harbor.
- windswept plains
Eight years of raids and counter raids, sucking bogs and windswept hills, Barbarians who melted into mists and emerged howling from the trees.
- Eight years of raids and counter raids, sucking bogs and windswept hills, Barbarians who melted into mists and emerged howling from the trees.
Examples
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Kwan stares at her dinner, her face blank, a windswept plain before the storm.
Fiction book (1996) -
Windswept pines moving against the coming night.
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For you, it is the windswept coastal village you sing of.
Fiction book (1998) -
There on a windswept bluff, he stands waiting.
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On Jarvis Avenue, we were a block from the EL and a block from a small, windswept beach.
Fiction book (2002) -
Ellie and Peter walk along a windswept cliff overlooking a vast desert lake.
Fiction book (1997) -
But he misjudges the blistering climate and the barren, windswept landscape.
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Beneath the windswept soil of the Canadian province of Alberta lies an unlikely-looking treasure.
Academic text (1998) -
The hill's angle lessened, and the trees thinned to a few squat, windswept needle-leafed varieties.
Fiction book (1998) -
The North Sea between Norway and the United Kingdom is cold, windswept, and unforgiving.
Synonyms
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1.0
Having a lot of strong moving air outdoors
5
4.9
Strong wind bends or shapes plants and trees
1
5.2
The weather has strong wind that moves things like leaves or umbrellas
Antonyms
How Windy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word windswept is made of wind and swept, and swept comes from sweep meaning 'to push or move across'. So windswept gives the picture of a place the wind has pushed over and left open, which is why a windswept place is exposed to strong winds and often looks wild or bare.