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Definition of "weather-beaten" []

  • Damaged or worn by exposure to the weather. (adjective)
  • Lined or coarsened from being outdoors: a weather-beaten face. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "weather-beaten" in a sentence
  • "And then I followed him out and sat beside him on an old couch covered with a wool blanket in front of a low weather-beaten coffee table."
  • "From the roof, they could see the entire yard and down the street, past the weather-beaten houses to the VFW at the end of the block, where oldsters gathered to play bingo and swap stories."
  • "Families lived in small houses, what real estate agents might call cottages or bungalows somewhere else, with weather-beaten exteriors ringed by short cyclone fences, or in apartments with rusting barbeques on the porches."