Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Oppressed or exhausted by the severity of winter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter.
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Examples
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“Here it is,” he said at last, coming to a small and leafless tree, in which a winter-beaten remnant of a home was still clinging.
Jennie Gerhardt 2004
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The one with the spade went on to mark the hard winter-beaten turf, -- the knotted grass he cut through.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various
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To a traveller from the north there is a pathos even in the contrast between the country in which these children of a happier climate toil, and those bleak, winter-beaten fields where our own peasants pass their lives.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866
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To a traveller from the north there is a pathos even in the contrast between the country in which these children of a happier climate toil, and those bleak, winter-beaten fields where our own peasants pass their lives.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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Olympic organizers are trying to get everything ready for the IOC visit, but a bumpy ride on winter-beaten streets might be unavoidable, Daley said.
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