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make heavy weather

make heavy weather verb: to make progress only with difficulty.

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To make progress only with difficulty.

Antonyms of make heavy weather

Forms of make heavy weather

third-person singular presentmakes heavy weather
present participlemaking heavy weather
past participlemade heavy weather
pastmade heavy weather

Questions about make heavy weather

What does make heavy weather mean?
Make heavy weather means to make progress only with difficulty.
What part of speech is make heavy weather?
Make heavy weather is a verb.
What is the past tense of make heavy weather?
The past tense of make heavy weather is made heavy weather.

Words near make heavy weather in the dictionary

  1. make head against
  2. make head nor tail of
  3. make head or tail of
  4. make headway
  5. make heavy going of
  6. make heavy weather
  7. make heavy weather of
  8. make history
  9. make interesting
  10. make into
  11. make it

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