单词 | waterwashed |
释义 | waterwashedadj. Washed with or by water; swept, flushed, or inundated by flowing water. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective] > flooded overdrowned1616 overfloweda1671 deluged1712 waterwashed1808 flooded1836 1808 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Inverness i. 30 Moors are remotely situated from water-washed gravel or sand. 1826 J. G. Whittier Exile's Departure in Poet. Wks. (1898) 521/1 The forest-crown'd hill and the water-wash'd strand. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xv. 157 Rounded fragments of water-washed greenstone. 1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads ii. 13 The reed-covered water-washed bank. 1920 Boys' Life Aug. 14/3 As he sat there on the waterwashed rock this loneliness assailed him more than ever. 1952 Pop. Mech. Mar. 142/2 No compressed air is used, no waterwashed walls for overspray removal are needed. 2012 R. Stevenson Hummingbird Heart xiv. 120 Jax sat down on a huge waterwashed log. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1808 |
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