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weight

2 ENTRIES FOUND:

2weight

verb

Definition of WEIGHT

transitive verb
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 ingredient
3
a : weigh 1 b : to feel the weight of : heft
4
: to assign a statistical weight to
5
: 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>

Examples of WEIGHT

  1. I weighted the fishing line with a lead sinker.
  2. <weighted the car with a ton of furniture and then headed off for college>

First Known Use of WEIGHT

1647

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