weigh sb down
— phrasal verb with weigh uk/weɪ/us/weɪ/verb
to make a person feel worried and unhappy because of problems, responsibilities, and duties:
I thought she looked somehow older, weighed down by all her new responsibilities.
Too much responsibility when too young can weigh down on a child.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Causing anxiety and worry
- alarming
- bite
- catch up with sb
- come back to bite sb idiom
- come back/home to roost idiom
- flap
- frighten sb/sth away/off
- get/go beyond a joke idiom
- give sb the jitters idiom
- gnaw
- harass
- joke
- suspenseful
- sweat
- tense
- troubling
- unnerve
- unsettling
- weigh
- weigh on sb/sth
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