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- adjective of trees, etc.
blown out ofshape by theprevailing winds
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Examples
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Katy in pity for the outcast would pat his cheek friendlily -- but never an encouragement do they receive from Tim standing at his brake and speaking sternly to Charley, meager and windbitten but unconquerable by humor or kindness as he has been by threat and danger.
The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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It drove swiftly over the sandy dunes, lifting and falling, and was hidden by a clump of windbitten trees.
Tono Bungay 1906
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