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Weigh down   /weɪ daʊn/   Listen
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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



... may, I now convey the reader to an ice-bound forest. Deep snow has buried the frozen ground. Masses of snow weigh down the branches of the leafless trees; and evergreens, which are not leafless, are literally overwhelmed, almost obliterated, by the universal covering. But the scene is by no means dismal. A blue sky overhead and a bright ...
— The Big Otter • R.M. Ballantyne
... the charms of such a life as that led by the Bannerworths; but what it must have been when they were supplied by ample means, with nothing to prey upon their minds, and no fearful mystery to hang on and weigh down their spirits, he ...
— Varney the Vampire - Or the Feast of Blood • Thomas Preskett Prest
... a standing order of this H[ouse] that the merit of elections be not determined by the number of voices, or right of electors, but by weight; and that one Whig shall weigh down ten Tories. ...
— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D. D., Volume IX; • Jonathan Swift
... I fear they come too late. Her father's crimes Sit heavy on her, and weigh down her prayers. A crown usurped; a lawful king deposed, In bondage held, debarred the common light; His children murdered, and his friends destroyed,— What can we less expect than what we feel, And ...
— The Works of John Dryden, Vol. 6 (of 18) - Limberham; Oedipus; Troilus and Cressida; The Spanish Friar • John Dryden
... on the tipping track, the lever on the front end of the car is knocked up so as to allow the coal to fall out, and the end of the long wooden pole is allowed to rise slowly by the rope being loosened, the coal then shoots out of the car. When empty the Chinamen weigh down on the pole and bring the track, with the car on it, back to its former position, making the rope fast to the belaying pin, and the car is run back to make way for another. We were told that in this way five ...
— Canada and the States • Edward William Watkin


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