weigh
/weɪ/ verb A2- To determine the weight of an object.
- Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale. · He weighed out two kilos of oranges for a client.
- To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate. · You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.· He took a long time weighing his options.
- To consider a subject.
- To have a certain weight. · I weigh ten and a half stone.
- To have weight; to be heavy; to press down.
- To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
- To raise an anchor free of the seabed.
He/she/it weighs · Past weighed · Past participle weighed · -ing form weighing
Verb forms
- Base form
- weigh
- He/she/it
- weighs
- Past
- weighed
- Past participle
- weighed
- -ing form
- weighing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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You went to sleep full of thoughts of vengeance; they weighed heavily upon your stomach; you had the nightmare—that’s all.
AN EAGLE was once captured by a man, who immediately clipped his wings and put him into his poultry-yard with the other birds, at which treatment the Eagle was weighed down with grief.
If you can imagine a lance, or a battering ram, or a hammer weighing nearly half a ton driven by a cool, quiet mind living in the handle of it, you can roughly imagine what Kaa was like when he fought.
Grimesby Roylott’s death, and I cannot say that it is likely to weigh very heavily upon my conscience.”
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