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Antonyms for weigh down

Grammar : Verb
Spell : wey
Phonetic Transcription : weɪ

Definition of weigh down

Origin :
  • Old English wegan "find the weight of, have weight, lift, carry," from Proto-Germanic *weganan (cf. Old Saxon wegan, Old Frisian wega, Dutch wegen "to weigh," Old Norse vega, Old High German wegan "to move, carry, weigh," German wiegen "to weigh"), from PIE *wegh- "to move" (cf. Sanskrit vahati "carries, conveys," vahitram "vessel, ship;" Avestan vazaiti "he leads, draws;" Greek okhos "carriage;" Latin vehere "to carry, convey;" Old Church Slavonic vesti "to carry, convey;" Lithuanian vezu "to carry, convey;" Old Irish fecht "campaign, journey").
  • The original sense was of motion, which led to that of lifting, then to that of "measure the weight of." The older sense of "lift, carry" survives in the nautical phrase weigh anchor. Figurative sense of "to consider, ponder" (in reference to words, etc.) is recorded from mid-14c.
  • verb depress
Example sentences :
  • There is always something to weigh down the spiritual side in all of us.
  • Extract from : « Under Western Eyes » by Joseph Conrad
  • But even so general a catastrophe could not weigh down the singer's spirits.
  • Extract from : « The Escape of Mr. Trimm » by Irvin S. Cobb
  • It would be an anodyne like poison that could weigh down my eyelids.
  • Extract from : « A Struggle For Life » by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • Her anxiety seemed to weigh down her cheeks and add ten years to her age.
  • Extract from : « Basil Everman » by Elsie Singmaster
  • Sleep does not yet weigh down my eyelids, so I will listen to my brother.
  • Extract from : « The White Scalper » by Gustave Aimard
  • The continuance of misfortune began to weigh down my courage.
  • Extract from : « The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete » by Jean Jacques Rousseau
  • I am poor and lowly and all unworthy of you; but if great love may weigh down such defects, then mine may do it.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The sound of the storm, made more audible by the dreary silence, seemed to weigh down every heart.
  • Extract from : « The O'Donoghue » by Charles James Lever
  • Here are plates wanted to weigh down the table-cloth; there's a ruffling gusty wind that gets under it.'
  • Extract from : « The Pillars of the House, Vol. II (of 2) » by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • His broad, high curved forehead, seemed to weigh down upon his body like an ivory chest laden full of unseen jewels.
  • Extract from : « The Torrent » by Vicente Blasco Ibaez

Synonyms for weigh down

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