To weigh down; to burden; to oppress, grieve, distress.

transitive. To make narrower; to reduce the breadth of. In early use occasionally figurative or in figurative context: †to constrict, constrain…

transitive. To overwhelm, overpower, crush by force (a person, military force, etc.); to press heavily upon, oppress. Obsolete.

transitive. To overload, oppress.

transitive. To oppress, afflict, persecute.

transitive. to weigh down: to draw, force, or bend down by pressure of weight; figurative to depress, oppress, lie heavy on. Similarly, to weigh ba…

transitive. To press heavily upon, as a weight; to burden. Only in passive. Obsolete.

To sit upon; to lie heavy upon; to weigh upon.

transitive. Of grief, sleep, hunger, etc.: to affect with a feeling of pressure, constraint, or distress; to afflict; to (mentally) overwhelm or…

To press hard upon, oppress. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To oppress, harass, distress, afflict; to repress. Obsolete.

transitive and intransitive = impress, v.1 (in various senses).

transitive. To press hard upon; to oppress. Also absol.

transitive. Probably: to pursue, sue, prosecute (a debtor). Cf. asking, n. 5 6, asker, n.1 2. Obsolete.

transitive. Of a tyrant, adverse circumstances, etc.: to oppress; to crush, reduce to distress or misery; to load or burden with impositions or…

transitive. To add a weight to; to load, burden; (figurative) to weigh down, to oppress. Also (in quot. 1573 –4): to provide with weights. Now rare…

To press hardly upon.

To press hard upon, straiten, reduce to straits; to oppress, afflict, distress. Obsolete.

transitive. To harry, harass, molest, oppress. See hale, v.1 5.

intransitive. to grate onor upon. To oppress or harass with exactions or importunities; to make burdensome demands upon. Obsolete.

To wreck (a vessel, mariners, etc.); to ruin or cast ashore by shipwreck. Chiefly passive and in figurative context.

In non-physical senses: To weigh down, overburden; to bear heavily upon.

In various idiomatic uses (with prepositions, etc.), expressive of steady and continuous action. (Cf… to lie heavy upon: to oppress, harass. (Cf. 7c)…

transitive. to weigh down: to draw, force, or bend down by pressure of weight; figurative to depress, oppress, lie heavy on. Similarly, to weigh ba…

intransitive. Of care, age, guilt, etc.: to press or weigh on (a person, a person’s heart, etc.), usually in a specified way.

intransitive. Of care, age, guilt, etc.: to press or weigh upon (a person, a person's mind, etc.), usually in a specified way; = to sit on —— 5 at…

figurative. To vex, harass, oppress. (Chiefly said of a metaphorical ‘yoke’, ‘fetters’, or ‘harness’.)

intransitive. With on or upon, and adverbs such as hard, heavily, grievously as complement. To affect a person or thing adversely.

transitive. To oppress (the mind); also passive, to be oppressed in mind or spirit. Scottish. Obsolete.

transitive. Originally: to beset or harass (a person, the mind) in the manner of a besieging army or evil spirit; (now) spec. to fill the mind of…

transitive. To bring grief or trouble to, to grieve, distress; to oppress, treat unfairly. Frequently in passive: to be injuriously affected, to…

To bear heavily upon. Obsolete. rare.

To press upon; to lay emphasis upon.

transitive. To weigh down, oppress. Obsolete.

intransitive with on or upon. Of a thought, feeling, circumstance: To lie heavy on, depress (a person, his spirits, etc.). Also in indirect passive.