WEATHERED Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

weathered

verb

Definition of weathered next

past tense of weather

as in survived

to come safely through we've weathered worse crises, and so we'll survive this one

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Recent Examples of weathered Today, the two houses are weathered but still standing. —

Reginald David, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2026 The offshore-oil industry had weathered the environmental reckoning and emerged intact, and arguably stronger. —

Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026 The 74-year-old NBC instituion has weathered very public in-house situations before. —

Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 3 Apr. 2026 Hernandez has weathered persistent criticism from co-workers, clients and their relatives. —

Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for weathered

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survived

Verb

One of the children who somehow survived the slaughter grew up to be the maternal grandfather of Vermeer.

— Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
The risk of getting a new cancer also looked about the same whether researchers focused on people who had already survived five years or looked at their risk over their entire lifetime.

— Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 13 Apr. 2026