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waterworn.

Adjective
Setting
MEANING

Smoothed, rounded, or eroded by the action of water.

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  • waterworn stones
  • waterworn rock

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She picked a waterworn stone from the shallows.

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waterworn

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Primary category: setting / environment. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: setting, description. Commonness: moderately common.

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