1. To change in appearance or condition through exposure to sun, wind, rain, or other outdoor conditions.
2. To get through a difficult situation without being defeated or destroyed by it.
3. The conditions outdoors at a particular place and time, including temperature, rain, wind, and sunshine.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- weathered stone
- wood weathers
- weather to a silver gray
On the page
The gate had weathered to the color of old bone.
Rain and salt had weathered the names almost smooth.
Their friendship had weathered the years of silence better than she expected.
The village weathered the winter, but three houses stood empty by spring.
The weather turned while they were still carrying chairs to the grave.
Word forms
- Base
- weather
- Past tense
- weathered
- Past participle
- weathered
- Present participle
- weathering
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- weather
- Present continuous
- am/is/are weathering
- Present perfect
- have/has weathered
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been weathering
- Past
- weathered
- Past continuous
- was/were weathering
- Past perfect
- had weathered
- Past perfect continuous
- had been weathering
- Future
- will weather
- Future continuous
- will be weathering
- Future perfect
- will have weathered
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been weathering
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Verb: weathers; weathered; weathered; weathering. Physical change can be transitive or intransitive; enduring a difficulty is transitive. Weather as atmospheric conditions is normally uncountable. Register: neutral. Commonness: common (dictionary-informed qualitative editorial estimate; not a measured frequency).
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