weigh someone down

weigh someone down
1 my fishing gear weighed me down: BURDEN, saddle, overload, overburden, encumber, hamper, handicap.
weigh

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be heavy and cumbersome to someone

my waders and fishing gear weighed me down

be oppressive or burdensome to someone

she was weighed down by the responsibility of looking after her sisters


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  • weigh sth down — UK US weigh sb/sth down Phrasal Verb with weigh({{}}/weɪ/ verb [T] ► to cause problems or difficulties for someone or something: »US growth has been weighed down by soaring deficits with China …   Financial and business terms

  • ˌweigh sb ˈdown — phrasal verb 1) to be very heavy and prevent someone from moving easily 2) to cause problems for someone or something …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

  • get someone down — DEPRESS, sadden, make unhappy, make gloomy, dispirit, dishearten, demoralize, discourage, crush, weigh down, oppress; upset, distress; informal give someone the blues, make someone fed up. → get * * * depress or demoralize someone …   Useful english dictionary

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  • weigh — weigh1 verb 1》 find out how heavy (someone or something) is.     ↘have a specified weight.     ↘balance (something) in the hands to assess its weight.     ↘(weigh something out) measure and take out a portion of a particular weight.     ↘(weigh… …   English new terms dictionary

  • weigh — [ weı ] verb ** 1. ) linking verb to have a particular weight: Tell me Clare, how much do you weigh? The baby weighed 7 pounds when she was born. weigh a ton (=be very heavy): Your suitcase weighs a ton. a ) transitive to measure how heavy… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • weigh down — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms weigh down : present tense I/you/we/they weigh down he/she/it weighs down present participle weighing down past tense weighed down past participle weighed down 1) to make someone heavy and unable to move… …   English dictionary

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