Meaning

8 senses
  1. To expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects.

  2. (broadly)To sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to endure; to resist.

    April 18, 1850, Frederick William Robertson, An Address Delivered to the Members of the Working Man's Institute You will weather the difficulties yet.

  3. To break down, of rocks and other materials, under the effects of exposure to rain, sunlight, temperature, and air.

    verwittern

  4. To cause (rocks) to break down by crushing, grinding, and/or dissolving with acids.

  5. To pass to windward in a vessel, especially to beat 'round.

    to weather a cape to weather another ship

    sail to the windward of

  6. To endure or survive an event or action without undue damage.

    Joshua weathered a collision with a freighter near South Africa.

    überstehen

  7. To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.

  8. To rain; to storm.

Examples

2346 sentences
  1. It all depends on the weather.

    Все залежить від погоди. — deniko

    ruВсё зависит от погоды. — marafon

    deAlles hängt vom Wetter ab. — Manfredo

  2. I'm fed up with this weather.

    Ця погода у мене вже в печінці сидить. — deniko

    ruЭта погода у меня уже в печенках сидит. — shanghainese

    deIch habe dieses Wetter satt. — Sudajaengi

  3. The weather was very bad yesterday.

    Учора погода була дуже поганою. — deniko

    ruПогода вчера была очень плохой. — Hellerick

    deGestern war miserables Wetter. — Manfredo

  4. The weather couldn't have been better.

    Погода не могла би бути кращою. — deniko

    ruПогода не могла быть лучше. — skynebaka

  5. The weather was very good today.

    Сьогодні погода дуже хороша. — deniko

Translations

5 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to breakdown of rocks and other materials, under the effects of exposure to rain, sunlight, temperature, and air:
to endure an event:

Origin

From Middle English weder, wedir, from Old English weder, from Proto-West Germanic *wedr,

From Middle English weder, wedir, from Old English weder, from Proto-West Germanic *wedr, from Proto-Germanic *wedrą, from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰrom (=*we-dʰrom), from *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).

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Forms

weathers, weathering, weathered, weathered
Base formweather · to weather
3rd person singularweathers
Present participleweathering
Past simpleweathered
Past participleweathered

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyweather
he, she, itweathers

Past simpleLesson

all personsweathered

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave weathered
he, she, ithas weathered

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill weather

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • the weather is
  • the weather forecast
  • kind of weather
  • about the weather
  • if the weather
  • weather forecast
  • bad weather
  • the bad weather
  • under the weather
  • cold weather
  • the weather will
  • hot weather

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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