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adjectiveseasoned or otherwise affected by exposure to the weather. (of wood) artificially treated to seem discolored or stained by the action of air, rain, etc. (of rocks) worn, disintegrated, or changed in color or composition by weathering. Architecture. made sloping or inclined, as a window sill, to prevent the lodgment of water. Origin of weatheredFirst recorded in 1780–90; weather + -ed2 OTHER WORDS FROM weatheredun·weath·ered, adjectiveWords nearby weatheredweathercast, weathercaster, weathercoat, weathercock, weather deck, weathered, weather eye, weatherfish, Weatherford, weather gauge, weatherglass Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for weatheredIt was a look which suited Kate much better and weathered the summery temperatures more effortlessly. Why Kate's Hair Matters|Tom Sykes|July 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST Perfume bottles and weathered papyrus replicas gather dust in the grubby window displays of the empty shops. Egyptian Tomb-Robbing Market Explodes on eBay|Bel Trew|May 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST It's a ghost town now, just a handful of weathered wooden buildings sagging beneath snow. Visiting the Arctic Circle…Before It’s Irreversibly Changed|Terry Greene Sterling|April 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST By 1978, Mortimer had six children with four different men and had weathered a painful divorce, the basis for The Pumpkin Eater. The Neglected Penelope Mortimer Was a Novelist Ahead of Her Time|Jessica Ferri|March 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Why light candles and leave mementos out in the open to be weathered and ruined? David Best Creates a Temple Made of Memories Outside San Francisco|Debra A. Klein|February 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST I have often thought of you with anxiety, and wished to know how you weathered the storm, and into what port you had retired. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson See that all glue is removed from the surface, and that the wood is clean and smooth, and apply a coat of weathered oak oil stain. Mission Furniture|H. H. Windsor The Dutch fisherman had weathered so many savage storms that he seemed to know exactly what to do, no matter what the crisis. The Spell of the White Sturgeon|James Arthur Kjelgaard I've heard, my boy, how bravely ye've weathered the capes an' I'm proud o' ye—that I am! The Light in the Clearing|Irving Bacheller Martians surely must have visited Earth briefly, though evidence there had long since weathered away. Comet's Burial|Raymond Zinke Gallun
British Dictionary definitions for weathered
adjectiveaffected by exposure to the action of the weather (of rocks and rock formations) eroded, decomposed, or otherwise altered by the action of water, wind, frost, heat, etc (of a sill, roof, etc) having a sloped surface so as to allow rainwater to run off (of wood) artificially stained so as to appear weather-beatenweathered garden furniture Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to weatheredwithstand, resist, survive, surmount, suffer, overcome, get through, ride out, brave, season, expose, acclimate, harden, stand, toughen, come through, pull through, make it, rise above, stick it out |