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11weigh\ upon — • weigh (up)on v 1. To be a weight or pressure on; be heavy on. The pack weighed heavily on the soldier s back. 2. To make sad or worried; trouble; disturb; upset. Sadness weighed on Mary s heart when her kitten died. John s wrongdoing weighed… …
12weigh — 1 *consider, study, contemplate, excogitate Analogous words: *ponder, meditate, ruminate, muse: *think, reflect, cogitate, reason, speculate 2 *burden, encumber, cumber, weight, load, lade, tax, charge, saddle Analogous words: balance, ballast,… …
13burden — Synonyms and related words: Spenserian stanza, accommodation, add, adjoin, affix, afflict, affliction, agglutinate, agitate, albatross, allegiance, amount, anacrusis, annex, antistrophe, append, arraignability, arraignableness, assigned task,… …
14weigh — weigh1 weighable, adj. weigher, n. /way/, v.t. 1. to determine or ascertain the force that gravitation exerts upon (a person or thing) by use of a balance, scale, or other mechanical device: to weigh oneself; to weigh potatoes; to weigh gases. 2 …
15weigh — [[t]weɪ[/t]] v. t. 1) phs wam to determine or ascertain the force that gravitation exerts upon (a person or thing) by use of a balance, scale, or other mechanical device 2) wam to measure or apportion (a certain quantity of something) according… …
16weigh — I. /weɪ / (say way) verb (t) 1. to ascertain the weight of by means of a balance, scale, or other mechanical device: to weigh gold; to weigh gases; to weigh oneself. 2. to hold up or balance, as in the hand, in order to estimate the weight. 3.… …
17weigh upon — Synonyms and related words: bear hard upon, bear on, bear upon, beat down, burden, burthen, cast down, charge, crush one, cumber, damp, dampen, dampen the spirits, darken, dash, deject, depress, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, encumber, exhaust …
18weigh — verb 1) she weighs the fruit Syn: measure the weight of, put on the scales; heft 2) he weighed 170 lbs Syn: have a weight of, tip the scales at, weigh in at 3) the situation weighed heavily on him …
19burden — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. hindrance; load, weight, encumbrance; charge; refrain. See gravity, repetition. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Something carried] Syn. load, weight, freight, pack; see freight 1 , load 1 , package 1 . 2.… …
20weigh — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. measure (weight); lift, heft; balance, scale, counterbalance; examine, ponder, consider, mull over, estimate; tell, count; weigh down, be heavy, drag, load, press; oppress, burden, depress;… …
