weigh down


verb
  1. (adverb) to press (a person) down by or as if by weight: his troubles weighed him down

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How to use weigh down in a sentence

  • Ivy-berries, hanging in thick clusters, are still in beauty; they are so heavy that they weigh down the branches.

    Wood and Garden | Gertrude Jekyll

Other Idioms and Phrases with weigh down

weigh down

Burden, oppress, as in Their problems have weighed them down. This expression transfers bowing under a physical weight to emotional burdens. [c. 1600]

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