wind-swept

[ wind-swept ]

/ ˈwɪndˌswɛpt /

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adjective

open or exposed to the wind: a wind-swept beach.

Words nearby wind-swept

wind-down, wind-pollinated, wind-screen, wind-shaken, wind-sucking, wind-swept, windable, windage, windaus, windbag, windbaggery

Origin of wind-swept

First recorded in 1805–15

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Examples from the Web for windswept

This windswept sheep-filled archipelago off the coast of Southern Patagonia remains an Argentine obsession.
The Never-Ending Falklands War: In Buenos Aires, A Museum's Selective History|Michael Luongo|August 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Michael (not his real name), was tall and slender; his windswept, dirty blond hair done up in a Flock of Seagulls–style do.
‘I Am Sorry’— Alan Chambers’s Apology and the End of Exodus International|James Kirchick|June 24, 2013|DAILY BEAST
And so, to survive, she started showing up at the Amarillo Resource Center food bank, in the windswept Texas Panhandle.
The New Blue-Collar Hungry|Sasha Abramsky|November 18, 2009|DAILY BEAST
The high school occupies a treeless, grassless, windswept block by itself.
What eight million women want|Rheta Childe Dorr

Rolling clouds of windswept snowflakes made it impossible to see objects more than a few yards away with any distinctness.
Dorothy Dixon and the Double Cousin|Dorothy Wayne
The erection of the main college building and the first dormitory only served to heighten its windswept appearance.
The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886.|Various
Pending such a fate, I was sent to bivouac in a windswept spinney known as Ponne Copse.
The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry|G. K. Rose
Where does Spring set her first flag of truce—out in the windswept open?
The Garden, You, and I|Mabel Osgood Wright

British Dictionary definitions for windswept

windswept

/ (ˈwɪndˌswɛpt) /

adjective

open to or swept by the wind

another word for windblown (def. 2)

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wind-swept

adjective

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British Dictionary definitions for windswept

adjective