unweather

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Bad weather; storm. literary,no-plural,rare
    — The composition of the following note did not occupy him half an hour: — Major von Wismar lets himself a thousand times be greased, and fears him the unweather shall defend for to day the premeditated walk on horseback, which Madame ― graciously vowed him for half three of the hour.
动词 v.
  1. To undo or reverse the effects of weathering transitive
    — I sprayed the underbody with Floquil's Grimy black and also gave the sides, ends and roof a light coat of this color. This was followed by Floquil's Zinc Chromate primer mixed with about 20 percent glaze to “unweather” the car and provide a base color suitable for decal application.

词形变化

unwether alternative,obsolete unweathers present,singular,third-person unweathering participle,present unweathered participle,past unweathered past

词源

词源 1
Likely a calque of Middle English unweder, Old English unweder (“bad weather; storm”) or Germanic cognates such as Saterland Frisian Uunweeder, Dutch onweer, German Low German Unweer, German Unwetter, and Danish uvejr, Swedish oväder, Icelandic óveður.
In any case, equivalent to un- (negative) + weather.
词源 2
Probably a back-formation from unweathered, equivalent to un- (reversive prefix) + weather.
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