Waterworn

Quick meaning: Waterworn is an adjective meaning Worn or smoothed by the action of water erosion.

Meaning

Worn or smoothed by the action of water erosion.

Example Sentences

waterworn stones

The cliffs were water-worn, as if they had been gnawed for thousands of years by hungry waves.

In many parts of the island the bottoms of the valleys are covered in an extraordinary manner by myriads of great loose angular fragments of the quartz rock, forming “streams of stones.” […] The blocks are not waterworn, their angles being only a little blunted […]

He has seen their lights around the ship at night, the green glow of their underwater torches, and he imagines them hovering in the water-worn doorways, their mouths red with the flesh of men, their wrists braceleted in seaweed, singing, weaving moonbeams into their hair.

Word Forms

• water-worn

Synonyms for waterworn

Depending on context, synonyms include worn.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include worn, pebble, water-worn, seaworn, weatherworn, weathered.

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