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windswept

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wind·swept  (wndswpt)
adj.
Exposed to or swept by winds: windswept moors.
windswept
Adjective
1. exposed to the wind: the vast windswept plains
2. blown about by the wind: his hair was looking a bit windswept
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.windswept - open to or swept by wind; "windswept headlands"
inhospitable - unfavorable to life or growth; "the barren inhospitable desert"; "inhospitable mountain areas"
Translations
windswept [ˈwɪndswɛpt] adj → azotado por el viento
windswept [ˈwɪndswɛpt] adj → balayé(e) par le vent
windswept [ˈwɪndswɛpt] adj [place] → vom Wind gepeitscht; [person] → vom Wind zerzaust
windswept [ˈwɪndswɛpt] adj → spazzato/a dal vento


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Then the panting and the shouts died away, and around them nothing could be heard but the whistling of the wind in their ears and now and then the squeak of their sledge-runners over a windswept part of the road.
Master and Man by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Let us go back a few months to the little, windswept platform of a railway station in northern Wisconsin.
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Brady's own footsteps showed as plainly as black ink upon white paper; but his was the only foot that had marred the smooth, windswept surface--there was no sign that Bradley had crossed the spot upon the surface of the ground, and yet his cap lay well toward the center of it.
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