weather-beaten

See also: weatherbeaten

English

Adjective

weather-beaten (comparative more weather-beaten, superlative most weather-beaten)

1. Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn or damaged by exposure to the weather or the outdoors, especially to severe weather.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 181:

     Rasmus was a tall, powerful man, with a weather-beaten, furrowed face of a good-natured expression.

   • 1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 1, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá], →ISBN, page 3:

     The glass door opened and there entered a thick-set, mud-bespattered, weather-beaten dock laborer with bare head and bare feet.

Alternative forms

• weatherbeaten

Translations

damaged by exposure to the weather

• Bulgarian: повреден от атмосферни влияния (povreden ot atmosferni vlijanija)
• Greek: ανεμοδαρμένος (el) (anemodarménos)
• Hebrew: מֻכֶּה סַעַר m (muke sa'ar)
• Hungarian: viharvert (hu)
• Japanese: 風雨にさらされた (fūu ni sarasareta)
• Maori: hiwi
• Persian: باد و باران خورده (bâd-o-bârân xorde)
• Swedish: väderbiten (sv)

References

• “weather-beaten”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.