to weigh down
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4.9
- phrasal verb
- /weɪ daʊn/
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- Of course, Harry knew that everyone noticed this, and it obviously weighed him down, along with everything else.
- weighed down by baggage
- Weariness weighed her down
- weighed down by debt
But the long game is to not weigh your children down with this stuff.
- But the long game is to not weigh your children down with this stuff.
- Imagine that sensation that they're heavy and weighing you down.
- He was, like, free of everything that had been weighing him down.
- And when we can learn to accept, we free ourselves from the baggage of this situation weighing us down.
- And until they do things even that Biden is not responsible for are going to continue to weigh him down.
- It gives every guest that sits in front of me the opportunity to kind of set themselves free from bits and pieces that are weighing them down.
- We feel the past weighing us down and we don't even have the room to create anything present and alive in the moment.
- It's someone weighing you down, slowing you down, not lifting you up.
- Yeah, but maybe the mindset was head weighed him down.
- So far they've been growing, but then again, everything is slowing down and getting weighed down.
Examples
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I need to let that guilt go because it is only weighing me down.
Blog text (18) -
Adults, when weighed down with worries, sometimes fail to see the joy in simple things where children do not.
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But the long game is to not weigh your children down with this stuff.
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I think you should have fun and not be so weighed down by the weight of expectations.
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And these invisible things that weigh us down in our life, they kill us.
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I am going to think positively and not let negative thoughts weigh me down any longer!
Blog text (26) -
Her knowledge was a secret burden that weighed her down, but it was a burden that she carried alone.
Fiction book (1991) -
We feel the past weighing us down and we don't even have the room to create anything present and alive in the moment.
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I've been letting my demons weigh me down ever since I moved to Southern California.
Blog text (18) -
The memories of her past mistakes began to weigh down on her, making her feel sad.
Synonyms
164
4.4
Make someone feel very strong emotions so they cannot think clearly
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4.2
To make someone feel sad or discouraged
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2.3
To make someone feel sad
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4.3
Cause a person or thing to be worse, for example making someone feel sad
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4.1
To make someone feel sad and lose hope
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5.2
To cause worry or sadness that stays in someone's mind
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4.1
To make someone feel sad or less hopeful
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6.5
To make someone feel sad or less hopeful
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4.9
Make someone feel less happy and excited
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6.3
To make someone feel sad or discouraged
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6.0
To make someone feel worried for a long time
To weigh down with a heavy load or worry
Antonyms
How Burdensome
Surface Forms
Morphology
The constituents 'weigh' (make heavy) and 'down' (lower) clearly suggest making something heavier or pressing downward, which naturally maps onto the idea of causing emotional burden or sadness. This is a metaphorical extension that many languages use, so learners can often infer the sense from the parts, but it still requires a figurative mapping rather than a strictly literal composition.
Etymology
Weigh down is also used as a picture for feelings: imagine carrying a heavy backpack that makes you slow and bend, with weigh as the heavy weight and down as the pressure that presses you. That's why it means 'to make someone feel sad or worried'.