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made heavy weather of

made heavy weather of is the simple past and past participle of make heavy weather of.

Meaning of make heavy weather of

Verb

make heavy weather of (third-person singular simple present makes heavy weather of, present participle making heavy weather of, simple past and past participle made heavy weather of)

  1. (transitive) To overcomplicate (something); to make (things) appear worse than they are.
    • Philosophers, possibly with justification, make heavy weather of the concept of causation, but to a working biologist causation is a rather simple statistical concept.1982, Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene, Oxford University Press

Questions about made heavy weather of

What is made heavy weather of the simple past and past participle of?
Made heavy weather of is the simple past and past participle of make heavy weather of.

Words near made heavy weather of in the dictionary

  1. made head against
  2. made head or tail of
  3. made headway
  4. made heavy going of
  5. made heavy weather
  6. made heavy weather of
  7. made history
  8. made in China
  9. made in Japan
  10. made in the shade
  11. made interesting

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