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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



... the book is, it will scarce prove heavy enough to weigh down the witch, I opine," ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth
... your pleasure may denounce against me, than listen to the suit which that man of Belial has urged upon me—friendless, defenceless, and his prisoner. But he is of your own faith, and his lightest affirmance would weigh down the most solemn protestations of the distressed Jewess. I will not therefore return to himself the charge brought against me—but to himself—Yes, Brian de Bois-Guilbert, to thyself I appeal, whether ...
— Ivanhoe - A Romance • Walter Scott
... and to deceive either one or the other, love has conquered friendship; do not punish me for it, for it has not been done blindly, and you will, I trust, consider the reasons which have caused the scale to weigh down in your favour. ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... learned Locke, and treateth of states and statecraft. It is but a small thing, but if wisdom could show in the scales it would weigh down many a library. You shall have it when I have finished it, to-morrow mayhap or the day after. A good man is Master Locke. Is he not at this moment a wanderer in the Lowlands, rather than bow his knee to what ...
— Micah Clarke - His Statement as made to his three Grandchildren Joseph, - Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 • Arthur Conan Doyle
... than common—just one of the unrecorded humble tragedies which daily engulf the Little Peoples. But I had seen a butterfly's wing save him alive; and so I did not doubt now that a little bird's nest could weigh down the balance which would put him definitely upon the side of ...
— Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man • Marie Conway Oemler


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