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weather-beaten

[weth-er-beet-n] / ˈwɛð ərˌbit n /




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Years of hard work have left him weather-beaten and broken.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026

And ramshackle houses and fences hide behind thickets of weather-beaten manzanita and chapparal.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2024

There was still a “For Sale” sign posted on a weather-beaten and leafless tree that resembled a scarecrow warning people to stay away.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2023

The man Sotheby’s considers the owner of the van Gogh lives in a Shanghai apartment complex where gray tiles and grimy grout frame a weather-beaten door.

From New York Times • May 29, 2023

Presently I stood within that clean, bright kitchen—on the very hearth—trembling, sickening; conscious of an aspect in the last degree ghastly, wild, and weather-beaten.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë