Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Worn by the waves.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Worn by the waves.
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Examples
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He poked about with a bit of stick, that itself was wave-worn and whitened and a vagrant, and tried to control the motions of the scavengers ...
Over the moon: Adam Phillips on the happiness myth Adam Phillips 2010
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We had difficulties and anxieties of our own, but as we passed that graveyard of the sea we thought of the many tragedies written in the wave-worn fragments of lost vessels.
The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001
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The inlet's slick wave-worn walls offered little in the way of hand or foot grips, and the crumbling rim overhung the water.
The Howling Stones Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997
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India bent to pick up the piece of wave-worn green glass.
Devlin’s Light Mariah Stewart 1997
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Looking behind, he saw the two minidrag tamers he had followed in, leaning up against a wave-worn rock.
The End of the Matter Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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Looking behind, he saw the two minidrag tamers he had followed in, leaning up against a wave-worn rock.
The End of The Matter Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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Looking behind, he saw the two minidrag tamers he had followed in, leaning up against a wave-worn rock.
The End of the Matter Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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Looking behind, he saw the two minidrag tamers he had followed in, leaning up against a wave-worn rock.
The End of the Matter Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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Looking behind, he saw the two minidrag tamers he had followed in, leaning up against a wave-worn rock.
The End Of The Matter Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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Here the beach was narrow, a strip of blue sand-gravel walled by wave-worn boulders.
Storm Over Warlock Andre Norton 1958
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