weatherize

English

Alternative forms

• weatherise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

weather +‎ -ize

Verb

weatherize (third-person singular simple present weatherizes, present participle weatherizing, simple past and past participle weatherized)

1. (US) To protect a structure against damage by the weather.
   • 2024 February 27, Henry Gass, “Lights on, but trust off. Texas tries to rebuild confidence in grid.”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

     State lawmakers replaced the entire ERCOT and PUC leadership in the months after the storm; the Legislature passed a law requiring power plants to weatherize.

Synonyms

• weatherproof

Translations

to protect against weather — see weatherproof