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weighting down

weighting down is the present participle and gerund 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 weighting down

What is weighting down the present participle and gerund of?
Weighting down is the present participle and gerund of weight down.

Words near weighting down in the dictionary

  1. weightiest
  2. weightily
  3. weightiness
  4. weightinesses
  5. weighting
  6. weighting down
  7. weightings
  8. weightism
  9. weightist
  10. weightists
  11. weightless

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