weather-beaten

[ weth-er-beet-n ]

/ ˈwɛð ərˌbit n /

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adjective

bearing evidences of wear or damage as a result of exposure to the weather.

tanned, hardened, or otherwise affected by exposure to weather: a weather-beaten face.

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Origin of weather-beaten

First recorded in 1520–30

Words nearby weather-beaten

weasel words, weather, weatherability, weather advisory, weather balloon, weather-beaten, weatherboard, weatherboarding, weather-bound, weathercast, weathercaster

How to use weather-beaten in a sentence

Frustrating as regulars find these fair-weather exercise interlopers, they were also all beginners once, he says.
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That ground hold was to stop you flying through weather that could kill you and everyone else aboard.
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Did the airline file a flight plan that took account of the weather en route from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore?
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These days weather should never cause a commercial airliner to crash.
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The 26 were beaten by the bailiffs as they filed into a caged dock, sobbing, on Dec. 21.
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In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
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Last night I saw Jean Baptiste lying prone upon the floor, and knew that she had beaten him down to it, and he had not resisted.
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Four years ago Hetton's horse had been first favourite, but it was ignominiously beaten.
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He frowned, and bent his head, and his long hair fell over his face, while the poor Stuttgardter sat there like a beaten hound.
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Blamed ef I'd lived in a country all my life, ef I wouldn't know better'n to git caught out in such weather's this!
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson

British Dictionary definitions for weather-beaten

weather-beaten

adjective

showing signs of exposure to the weather

tanned or hardened by exposure to the weather

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weather-beaten

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