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waterworn

[ waw-ter-wawrn, -wohrn, wot-er- ]

adjective

  1. worn worn by the action of water; smoothed by the force or movement of water.


waterworn

/ ˈwɔːtəˌwɔːn /

adjective

  1. worn smooth by the action or passage of water
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of waterworn1

First recorded in 1805–15; water + worn
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Example Sentences

I ease myself along, intrigued by the smooth, waterworn walls.

They consist of waterworn chunks of bright turquoise Styrofoam adorned with a feathered plume or two — lightness reinforces lightness.

Sometimes we went through deep cuttings in the red clay, close enough for me to notice it was interstratified with waterworn but angular quartz peebles.

After a death a long waterworn stone is usually placed in one of the old dolmens which are scattered over the Nilgiri plateau, but occasionally a small dolmen is raised to mark the burial.

Rounded waterworn pebbles and cobblestones among a mass of angular bowlders, left behind by glacier streams, together with an occasional striated pebble, were “sermons in stones” to the geologist.

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