weigh
/weɪ/ verbo A2En español: pesar, levar, desancorar
- 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 · Pasado weighed · Participio pasado weighed · Forma en -ing weighing
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
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- He/she/it
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- Pasado
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- Participio pasado
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- Forma en -ing
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Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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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.
She put down the letter, weighed every circumstance with what she meant to be impartiality--deliberated on the probability of each statement--but with little success.
She had got rid of two of the secrets which had weighed on her for a fortnight, and was certain of a willing listener in Jane, whenever she might wish to talk again of either.
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.
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