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adj. - Pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities.

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Usage examples (8)
  • The multitude swayed at first as if tempest-swept.
  • The writer of the following pages never sought to sail beyond the peaceful and well-marked area of the first, until induced -- at the suggestions of his shipmates, though...
  • And here, three years later, down from the snow-filled and tempest-swept passes of the
  • They took them in the gloom of midnight, through the tempest-swept streets, lest the slave-hunter should meet them.
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