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(adverb) to press (a person) down by or as if by weighthis troubles weighed him down

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How to use weigh down in a sentence

Line with parchment paper and fill with rice or beans to weigh down the dough.
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All those times past—the loves, the sighs, the sorrows, the desires—can they not weigh down one frail misfortune?
Sir Walter Ralegh|William Stebbing
I am poor and lowly and all unworthy of you; but if great love may weigh down such defects, then mine may do it.
The White Company|Arthur Conan Doyle
No more right have we to torment our own souls, or to permit habitual sadness and despondency to weigh down our spirits.
Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women|George Sumner Weaver

She would illuminate the grounds, weigh down the old forest trees with a fruitage of lights, build pavilions and rustic bridges.
The Gold Brick|Ann S. Stephens
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

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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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