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weighing

/ˈweɪ.ɪŋ/ adjective C2
  1. That weighs or burdens.
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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.
The Jungle Book, p. 56 · B2
There were a thousand ingots of gold, each weighing from two to three pounds; then he piled up twenty-five thousand crowns, each worth about eighty francs of our money, and bearing the effigies of Alexander VI.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 264 · C1
Perhaps the thought of that lonely walk across the ill-omened moor was weighing heavily upon his mind.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 188 · C1

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