to weather
- verb
- /ˈwɛðər/
- The association has managed to weather the financial storms by maintaining a solid financial base.
- weather the storm
- weather a crisis
- help weather the crisis
By the way, can your savings weather an economic storm?
- By the way, can your savings weather an economic storm?
- So you have to have the emotional fortitude to weather all of those storms.
- A lot of people just want to they want to, they're not willing to weather that period of discomfort.
- And is it possible to arrive at a place like that without having to weather all the suffering?
- And like you said, you don't really know who someone is or what they would be to you until you've weathered those storms together.
- It's given me the sense that I should go for certain things and try certain things to take risks to, to weather that anxiety.
- So we were talking about all of this and we were getting pushed back and we just, we just weathered it.
- The first thing I have learned is to be OK with uncomfortable feelings, emotions, to just ride it out and weather that storm.
- So I think yeah, like you said, weather the storm and when you get but but make sure when you do you.
Examples
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I just need you guys to help me weather the storm.
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The more skills a writer has, the better chance she has of weathering storms in her career.
Academic text (2008) -
I could weather a certain amount of debt.
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Whatever comes our way, we can weather it together.
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We're just gonna have to weather it.
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If you have the foundation, you can weather any storm that life will bring you.
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But also, as the economic crisis has shown us, it's wealth and not income that allows people to weather financial crises.
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Large companies have enough resources to weather the storms of economic, market, and even regulatory reversals.
Academic text (2012) -
Instead, they have chosen to weather the storm by supplementing their dwindling coffee incomes in other ways.
Academic text (1997) -
We can weather any challenge if we support each other.
Synonyms
To deal with something difficult for a long time without giving up
To resist strong or harmful force without breaking
To face danger or difficulty with courage
To survive a difficult time by dealing with problems
To stay and face a difficult situation without showing fear
Manage to get through a difficult situation
Antonyms
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Compounds
A United States government agency that gives weather forecasts and warnings
The state of the air at a place and time, like temperature, wind, clouds, or rain
- Specialized
A place with instruments and people who measure and record the weather
- Specialized
A satellite made by people that takes pictures and information about the Earth's weather
- Informal
A person who helps only when things are good and leaves during problems
- Specialized
Top outside part of a ship open to rain and wind that protects the area below
- Specialized
A thin piece of material placed around doors and windows to stop cold air, water or dust from entering
- Specialized
A map that shows weather in a place at one time, like wind and temperature
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Etymology
Weather as a verb (to endure) grew from sailors using the word for getting through a storm; imagine a ship that survives strong wind and rain. That's why to weather trouble means to endure or come through hard times.