weight
noun
the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
had weighted
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past perfectof weight.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Dad had weighted down the note with the salt shaker.
From "Doing Time Online" by Jan Siebold
Circumstances had weighted her hand with enormous possessions, and hitherto she had not realized the truth of that lesson which would teach us to believe that happiness and riches are incompatible.
From Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
Her father had weighted the burden until it was mountain-high, then had left her to carry it.
From Nobody's Child by Elizabeth Dejeans
Saint Louis himself organized industry, and divided the trades into brotherhoods, put under the protection of the saints from the tyranny of the barons and of the feudal system which had weighted all industry.
From Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future by Helen Campbell
The men we met walked past slow, unsmiling, with downcast eyes, as if the melancholy of an over-burdened earth had weighted their feet, bowed their shoulders, borne down their glances.
From Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad
