windswept

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Etymology

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From wind +‎ swept.

Adjective

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windswept (comparative more windswept, superlative most windswept)

  1. Exposed to the winds.
    • 20 January 2017, Donald Trump, Inauguration Speech
      And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty Creator.
    We struggled over the windswept moorland.
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