Main Entry:

²weight

Function:

transitive verb

Date:

1647

1: to oppress with a burden <weighted down with cares>2 a: to load or make heavy with or as if with a weight b: to increase in heaviness by adding an ingredient3 a: weigh 1 b: to feel the weight of : heft4: to assign a statistical weight to5: to cause to incline in a particular direction by manipulation <the tax structure…which was weighted so heavily in favor of the upper classes — A. S. Link>6: to shift the burden of weight upon <weight the inside ski>