storm-swept

English

Adjective

storm-swept (comparative more storm-swept, superlative most storm-swept)

1. (literary) Usually relating to coastlines or sea areas affected by storms that sweep in or across.
   • 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8:

     With the sea below us grey and storm swept, and the coast line vague in the driving rain, we forged our way up the bank to breast the summit at 37 m.p.h.

Alternative forms

• storm swept, stormswept

Related terms

• windswept

References

• "over the storm-swept waters of the Atlantic to Canada"