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Weigh down   /weɪ daʊn/   Listen
verb
Weigh  v. t.  (past & past part. weighed; pres. part. weighing)  
1.
To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up; as, to weigh anchor. "Weigh the vessel up."
2.
To examine by the balance; to ascertain the weight of, that is, the force with which a thing tends to the center of the earth; to determine the heaviness, or quantity of matter of; as, to weigh sugar; to weigh gold. "Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting."
3.
To be equivalent to in weight; to counterbalance; to have the heaviness of. "A body weighing divers ounces."
4.
To pay, allot, take, or give by weight. "They weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver."
5.
To examine or test as if by the balance; to ponder in the mind; to consider or examine for the purpose of forming an opinion or coming to a conclusion; to estimate deliberately and maturely; to balance. "A young man not weighed in state affairs." "Had no better weighed The strength he was to cope with, or his own." "Regard not who it is which speaketh, but weigh only what is spoken." "In nice balance, truth with gold she weighs." "Without sufficiently weighing his expressions."
6.
To consider as worthy of notice; to regard. (Obs. or Archaic) "I weigh not you." "All that she so dear did weigh."
To weigh down.
(a)
To overbalance.
(b)
To oppress with weight; to overburden; to depress. "To weigh thy spirits down."


Weigh  v. i.  
1.
To have weight; to be heavy. "They only weigh the heavier."
2.
To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance. "Your vows to her and me... will even weigh." "This objection ought to weigh with those whose reading is designed for much talk and little knowledge."
3.
To bear heavily; to press hard. "Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart."
4.
To judge; to estimate. (R.) "Could not weigh of worthiness aright."
To weigh down, to sink by its own weight.





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"Weigh down" Quotes from Famous Books



... of impending ill cast gloom over his anticipations for the coming day, for Bradley was a man who, while taking every precaution against possible danger, permitted no gloomy forebodings to weigh down his spirit. When danger threatened, he was prepared; but he was not forever courting disaster, and so it was that when about one o'clock in the morning of the fifteenth, he heard the dismal flapping of giant wings overhead, he was neither surprised nor frightened but idly prepared for an attack ...
— Out of Time's Abyss • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... favour the Yortes faction, who, in the regular course of elections, must certainly be chosen members of the senate then to be convoked; it was necessary, by the force of money, to influence elections in such a manner, that your Majesty's father might have a sufficient number to weigh down the scale on his side, and thereby carry on those measures which could only secure him and his family in the possession of the empire. To support this original plan I came into the service: But the members of the senate, knowing themselves every day more ...
— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol. VII - Historical and Political Tracts--Irish • Jonathan Swift
... a ponderous and venerable matron, in black silks, Chantilly lace, and marabout feathers, who would weigh down sixteen of you and me, and who worships the ground her nephew walks on. She is the daughter of a marquis and a peeress in her own right. Think of that, you poor, little, half-civilized Yankee girl, and blush to remember you never had an ancestor. ...
— A Terrible Secret • May Agnes Fleming


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