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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • India bent to pick up the piece of wave-worn green glass.

    Devlin’s Light Mariah Stewart 1997

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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