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weight down

weight down verb: to place a weight on, attach a weight to, load with a weight; to encumber with a weight.

Verb

weight down (third-person singular simple present weights down, present participle weighting down, simple past and past participle weighted down)

  1. To place a weight on, attach a weight to, load with a weight; to encumber with a weight.
    • […] the fact is that you can't move fast when you are sodden and mudded from head to foot and weighted down with a heavy rifle and bayonet and a hundred and fifty cartridges.1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC
    • The orchards of peaches with the lush fruit weighting down the dwarfed trees.1940, Carson McCullers, chapter 15, in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, published 2000, page 321

Forms of weight down

third-person singular presentweights down
present participleweighting down
past participleweighted down
pastweighted down

Questions about weight down

What does weight down mean?
Weight down means to place a weight on, attach a weight to, load with a weight; to encumber with a weight.
What part of speech is weight down?
Weight down is a verb.
What is the past tense of weight down?
The past tense of weight down is weighted down.

Words near weight down in the dictionary

  1. weight bears
  2. weight bore
  3. weight borne
  4. weight class
  5. weight classes
  6. weight down
  7. weight for age
  8. weight gain
  9. weight gainer
  10. weight gainers
  11. weight gains

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