weigh sb/sth down
— phrasal verb with weigh uk/weɪ/us/weɪ/verb
If someone or something is weighed down with something, they are carrying a lot of or too much of it:
Weighed down with supplies, they found the steep path difficult to climb.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Too much and unnecessary
- a sledgehammer to crack a nut idiom
- avalanche
- be up to your neck (in sth) idiom
- bellyful
- binge
- carry/take coals to Newcastle idiom
- hyper
- immoderate
- inessential
- insatiable
- lousy
- play gooseberry idiom
- plenty
- plethora
- proliferate
- redundancy
- sock
- supplementary
- surplus
- weigh
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