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
This waist pack is a must-have for keeping my phone, keys, and energy gels stored without weighing down my pockets.
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Rachel Trujillo, PEOPLE, 29 Dec. 2025
After a long while, earrings can even cause permanent stretching to your earlobes from weighing down your ears, which is impossible to naturally reverse.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2025
Out are the summer boho bags and totes—I’m already weighed down by multiple layers of clothing.
—Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2025
In Michigan, ice weighing down on power lines and trees caused more than 30,000 homes and businesses to lose power.
—Connor Greene, Time, 27 Dec. 2025
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Rachel Trujillo, PEOPLE, 29 Dec. 2025
After a long while, earrings can even cause permanent stretching to your earlobes from weighing down your ears, which is impossible to naturally reverse.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2025
Out are the summer boho bags and totes—I’m already weighed down by multiple layers of clothing.
—Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2025
In Michigan, ice weighing down on power lines and trees caused more than 30,000 homes and businesses to lose power.
—Connor Greene, Time, 27 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weigh down
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While stopping to take a photo, Van Camp surprised Jenkins by getting down on one knee on the 1,200-foot-long bridge and asking her to marry him.—
Erin Clack,
PEOPLE,
6 Jan. 2026
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Salvation Army When the temperatures get down to 32 degrees or below, the Salvation Army Center of Hope provides shelter for up to 34 women and children.—
Briah Lumpkins,
Charlotte Observer,
5 Jan. 2026
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Merchants are seeing this wobbly job market help to depress consumer confidence.—
Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
6 Nov. 2025
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This sounds like depressing stuff, and Mothertongue is not extremely upbeat.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Oct. 2025
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As Johnson County continues to lose its attainable housing stock, which refers to homes that are $300,000 or less, more residents are feeling burdened by the rising costs of living.—
Taylor O'Connor,
Kansas City Star,
7 Nov. 2025
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These supercities could absorb population growth without burdening existing urban centers while creating hundreds of thousands of jobs in construction, engineering and services.—
Zoltan Istvan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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My message this week is about not letting our hearts be troubled, and Jesus is the way.—
Nathan Pilling,
Kansas City Star,
9 Jan. 2026
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On one of the final days of the semester, Raymundo peered into his Infiniti J30’s engine bay, searching for the issue that had troubled the car.—
Daniel Miller,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Jan. 2026
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Punk music and its spirit clearly worried the Soviet rulers.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Nov. 2025
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For voters worried about health-insurance coverage or the future of research in the United States, scientists, health-care workers, and public-health experts may have particular appeal right now, Shields told me.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
7 Nov. 2025
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After female marches, which became iconic in the Belarusian revolution 2020, of course, the regime started to arrest women too and torture them too, the same as men.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Nov. 2025
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Daniel is just one of an unknown number of migrants who are currently being tortured on a near daily basis, somewhere in Libya’s Sahara Desert.—
Mick Krever,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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When, in reality, not that all Jews have money, but the reality is, for 3000 years, white people who were male and female, had money and didn't have money, were being brutally oppressed.—
Armando Salguero OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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Our systems were built to oppress people of color.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
19 Oct. 2025
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“Weigh down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weigh%20down. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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