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单词 weigh down
释义
weigh down
1. phrasal verb
If something that you are wearing or carrying weighs you down, it stops you moving easily by making you heavier.
He took off his shoes. If they had to swim, he didn't want anything weighing him down. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
These nests increase in size each year, and can eventually weigh down the branch. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
...soldiers weighed down by their heavy packs. [VERB-ed PARTICLE]
2. phrasal verb
If you are weighed down by something, it makes you extremely worried or causes you great problems.
The merchant bank is being weighed down by a £1.3 billion book of bad debts. [be V-ed by/with n]
...the depression that weighed him down each morning. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
weighed down graded adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE]
I was too weighed down by guilt to eat the sweet.
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