weighs (on or upon)

verb

present tense third-person singular of weigh (on or upon)
as in bears (down on)
to push steadily against with some force the bulky backpack weighed upon my back uncomfortably

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  1. shoves
  2. presses
  3. compresses
Verb
  • The video shows Ron Thompson appear to swing at Thompson, and Stephanie Daniels shoves her.
    — Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 9 July 2026
  • Here in the famous Festival Theatre, the sprite Ariel, played in splendidly sprightly fashion by Marissa Orjalo, opens up the top of a piano, a piece of island flotsam and Prospero, in the form of the veteran actor Geraint Wyn Davies, shoves his coat inside, throws up his hands and closes the lid.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026
Definition of shoves
Verb
  • Simultaneously rendering the past less remote while relishing its radical foreignness, Beard presses readers to grapple with alien ideas, reckon with gaps in their knowledge, and confront complexity.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
  • In a manual activation, the officer presses a button on the camera to start the recording.
    — Stephen J. Beard, USA Today, 15 July 2026
Definition of presses
Verb
  • In agentic environments, though, the interval between anomaly and action compresses to near zero.
    — Jay Limburn, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • The consumer version compresses that same idea into a ring, watch or app.
    — Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 3 July 2026
Definition of compresses
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