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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

He hesitated before pointing across the courtroom to a man with a weather-beaten face.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2025

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

Mr. Balcomb was a cross between an old-school naturalist and a modern environmentalist, though he looked every bit the weather-beaten fisherman: stout, with a thick white beard and facial creases like canyons.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2023

All Clara had to do to see her uncle was close her eyes and there he was, weather-beaten and thin, with a pirate’s mustache through which his strange, sharklike smile peered out at her.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende