weight
/weɪt/ verb C1- To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
- To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.
- To load, burden or oppress someone.
- To assign weights to individual statistics.
- To bias something; to slant. · The criteria governing the choice of candidate were heavily weighted in his favor.
- To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
- To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.
He/she/it weights · Past weighted · Past participle weighted · -ing form weighting
Verb forms
- Base form
- weight
- He/she/it
- weights
- Past
- weighted
- Past participle
- weighted
- -ing form
- weighting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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We tied all his things into a bundle, and I weighted them with the only weight I could find and put them through the window.
Barker—this bundle, weighted with a dumb-bell, which you have just raised from the bottom of the moat.”
When water is near and a weight is missing it is not a very far-fetched supposition that something has been sunk in the water.
The Horse fell down straightway under the weight, no longer equal to the burden, and said to his master, “You must now go to the war on foot, for you have transformed me from a Horse into an Ass; and how can you expect that I can again turn in a moment from an Ass to a Horse?”
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