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makes heavy weather of

makes heavy weather of is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

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What is makes heavy weather of the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Makes heavy weather of is the third-person singular simple present indicative of make heavy weather of.

Words near makes heavy weather of in the dictionary

  1. makes head against
  2. makes head or tail of
  3. makes headway
  4. makes heavy going of
  5. makes heavy weather
  6. makes heavy weather of
  7. makes history
  8. makes interesting
  9. makes into
  10. makes it
  11. makes it big

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