WEIGHED DOWN Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

weighed down

verb

past tense of weigh down

as in got down

to make sad all these tragedies occurring simultaneously are weighing me down

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Recent Examples of weighed down The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite tumbled more than 4% for its worst day since April 2025, weighed down by chip names including Broadcom, Marvell, Intel and AMD. —

Alex Harring, CNBC, 8 June 2026 Resale values are weighed down by the availability of public charging stations, fears of running out of juice on the road and concerns about how long the costly batteries will last. —

Bloomberg, Oc Register, 8 June 2026 Resale values are weighed down by the availability of public charging stations, fears of running out of juice on the road and concerns about how long the costly batteries will last. —

Bloomberg, Mercury News, 3 June 2026 At 23 years old, Edvinsson still hasn’t hit his prime yet, and has already shown similar traits to the likes of Ryan McDonagh and Hampus Lindholm before injury weighed down his game later in the season. —

Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 2 June 2026 Air drying your un-trimmed hair might feel flat and weighed down, making some of the features in your face feel out of proportion. —

Audrey Noble, Vogue, 30 May 2026 But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts that come with his new territory, Stilwell gets a report of a body found weighed down at the bottom of the harbor. —

Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 27 May 2026 This ensures your hair won’t be weighed down in excess product. —

Reece Andavolgyi, InStyle, 23 May 2026 Googlers talk about these moves as a way to more efficiently extract the information people want from webpages that have become weighed down with extraneous text that forces you to scroll past more and more ads. —

ArsTechnica, 20 May 2026

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The Critics Choice Association got down to its real nitty gritty today, revealing the winners of its eighth annual Real TV Awards.

— Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 3 June 2026
Austin got down to the ground, sprinted the ball to the middle of the field and got the ball spiked and the clock stopped.

— Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 22 May 2026