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weighed

/weɪd/

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Scotland/weːd/

weighed is the simple past and past participle of weigh.

Meaning of weigh

Verb

weigh (third-person singular simple present weighs, present participle weighing, simple past and past participle weighed)

  1. (transitive) To determine the weight of an object.
  2. (transitive) Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale.
    • He weighed out two kilos of oranges for a client.
  3. (figuratively, transitive) To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.
    • You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.
  4. (figuratively, intransitive, obsolete) To judge; to estimate.
    • But ſhe thereof grew proud and inſolent, / That none ſhe worthie thought to be her fere, / But ſcornd them all, that loue vnto her ment; / Yet was ſhe lou’d of many a worthy pere, / Vnworthy ſhe to be belou’d ſo dere, / That could not weigh of worthineſſe aright.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 444
  5. (transitive) To consider a subject.
  6. (copulative, intransitive, stative) To have a certain weight.
    • I weigh ten and a half stone.

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Questions about weighed

What is weighed the simple past and past participle of?
Weighed is the simple past and past participle of weigh.
How do you pronounce weighed?
Weighed is pronounced /weɪd/.

Words near weighed in the dictionary

  1. weighboat
  2. weighbridge
  3. weighbridgeman
  4. weighbridgemen
  5. weighbridges
  6. weighed
  7. weighed against
  8. weighed anchor
  9. weighed down
  10. weighed in
  11. weighed in the balance

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