English Dictionary

weather

/ˈwɛð.ə/

verb

To expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects. / (by extension) To sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to endure; to resist.

He weathered countless political battles.

意味（1）

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

The organisms […] seem indestructible, while the hard matrix in which they are embedded has weathered from around them.

意味（2）

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

Come hither! come hither! my little daughter, / And do not tremble so; / For I can weather the roughest gale, That ever wind did blow.

意味（3）

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

意味（4）

(nautical) To pass to windward in a vessel, especially to beat 'round.

to weather a cape to weather another ship

意味（5）

(nautical) To endure or survive an event or action without undue damage.

Joshua weathered a collision with a freighter near South Africa.

意味（6）

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

If your hawk is bad-weathered, that is, will not fit on your fist when the wind blows, but hales, and beats, and hangs by the jeſſes, ſhe has an ill habit of the worſt kind.