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Past tense of weather

regular verb

The past tense of weather is weathered. The past participle is also weathered.

Forms of weather

Base form (V1)weather /ˈwɛðə/
Past tense (V2)weathered
Past participle (V3)weathered
Present participleweathering /ˈwɛ.ðə.ɹɪŋ/
Third person singularweathers

Weathered in a sentence

  • Some observers have contrasted China with the US, whose economy has weathered the post-Covid recovery better.2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC
  • Joshua weathered a collision with a freighter near South Africa.
  • Their relationship had weathered some rocky times, but they loved each other.From the entry rocky
  • Bob lost his job, but somehow his family weathered the storm.From the entry weather the storm
  • With his signature bronzer, Trump seems to be aiming for a weathered ruggedness, perhaps.2025 January 20, Jess Cartner-Morley, “Brimful of menace? Melania strikes sombre note at Trump inauguration”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry bronzer

Meaning of weather

  1. noun The short-term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.
  2. noun Unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects.
  3. noun The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side.

Full definition of weather

Questions about the past tense of weather

What is the past tense of weather?
The past tense of weather is weathered.
What is the past participle of weather?
The past participle of weather is weathered.
Is weather a regular or irregular verb?
Weather is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: weather (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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