as in to get down
to make sad
all these tragedies occurring simultaneously are weighing me down
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Recent Examples of weigh down
But pouring money into the Titanic to refloat is, has been demonstrated over the years to weigh down the Titanic even more, to keep it on the bottom of the ocean floor.
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Letters To The Editor, Hartford Courant, 9 Apr. 2026
So, shop it here, as well as some of my other volumizing favorites perfect for thin or fine hair that won’t weigh down strands or give an unwanted coating or texture.
—Olivia Cefalu, InStyle, 8 Apr. 2026
This might threaten unrelieved angst weighing down a 90-minute drama, or, maybe worse, a didactic, finger-wagging life lesson lecture.
—Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 7 Apr. 2026
Fishermen found lobsters and crabs painted black and weighed down by oil.
—Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
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Letters To The Editor, Hartford Courant, 9 Apr. 2026
So, shop it here, as well as some of my other volumizing favorites perfect for thin or fine hair that won’t weigh down strands or give an unwanted coating or texture.
—Olivia Cefalu, InStyle, 8 Apr. 2026
This might threaten unrelieved angst weighing down a 90-minute drama, or, maybe worse, a didactic, finger-wagging life lesson lecture.
—Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 7 Apr. 2026
Fishermen found lobsters and crabs painted black and weighed down by oil.
—Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weigh down
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Children are welcome at the Adult Learners Club’s meetings and provided with games and movies to entertain them while their parents get down to business.—
Elizabeth Hernandez,
Denver Post,
12 Apr. 2026
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But the Artemis program’s most lasting scientific discoveries will almost certainly only come when astronauts get down to the surface.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
9 Apr. 2026
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So why isn’t any of this depressing him?—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
12 Apr. 2026
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This is actually a call that takes away from the rest of the tech industry because sky-high memory prices depress gross margins for all the users.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
8 Apr. 2026
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King is especially distraught in the season finale after learning that she'll be deposed again in a lawsuit against the ER — a suit and deposition that has burdened the doctor all season.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
17 Apr. 2026
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Healey must think ratepayers – who are burdened with some of the highest energy costs in the country – are pretty stupid and simple minded.—
Joe Battenfeld,
Boston Herald,
16 Apr. 2026
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Ward, now living in Denver, said she was troubled by how recent some events were.—
Gary Fields,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Apr. 2026
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She had long been known to be troubled and had been seen hunting birds in her neighborhood, per The Evening Independent.—
Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
7 Apr. 2026
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Another employee spoke with The New Yorker for the 2016 story while wearing a disguise, worried about retribution.—
Paula Mejía,
New Yorker,
15 Apr. 2026
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Hikers, who already worry about bikes flying down narrow trails, now worry about e-bikes flying up from behind.—
Jack Dolan,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Apr. 2026
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The 14-year-old was kidnapped, tortured and killed in 1955 after being accused of whistling at a white woman in a rural Mississippi grocery store.—
Gary Fields,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Apr. 2026
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For years, deportations could be indefinitely delayed if an immigrant successfully argued that they’d be tortured or persecuted if they were returned home.—
Seth Klamann,
Denver Post,
12 Apr. 2026
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Much of progressive ideological frameworks tend to divide the world into oppressors and oppressed.—
Arie Perliger,
The Conversation,
18 Mar. 2026
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For 47 years, Iranians have been subject to a regime that seeks to divide them, isolate them, oppress them, torture them and dispose of them.—
Talla Mountjoy,
Twin Cities,
11 Mar. 2026
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“Weigh down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weigh%20down. Accessed 19 Apr. 2026.
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