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weighted down

weighted down is the simple past and past participle of weight down.

Meaning of weight down

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

Questions about weighted down

What is weighted down the simple past and past participle of?
Weighted down is the simple past and past participle of weight down.

Words near weighted down in the dictionary

  1. weighted
  2. weighted alphabet
  3. weighted alphabets
  4. weighted average
  5. weighted averages
  6. weighted down
  7. weighted graph
  8. weighted graphs
  9. weighted mean
  10. weighted means
  11. weighted vest

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