WEIGHED DOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does weighed down mean? 

• WEIGHED DOWN (adjective)
  The adjective WEIGHED DOWN has 2 senses:

1. full of; bearing great weight

2. heavily burdened with work or cares

  Familiarity information: WEIGHED DOWN used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEIGHED DOWN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Full of; bearing great weight

Synonyms:

heavy; weighed down

Context example:

vines weighed down with grapes

Similar:

full (containing as much or as many as is possible or normal)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Heavily burdened with work or cares

Synonyms:

bowed down; loaded down; overburdened; weighed down

Context example:

weighed down with cares

Similar:

burdened (bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities)

 Context examples 

Moodily and in silence the little party rode along the narrow and irregular track, their hearts weighed down by this far-stretching land of despair.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You have Saturn, Pluto, Mars, and Jupiter all in your eighth house of other people’s money, Capricorn, an earth sign that can make an air sign like you feel weighed down.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I never shall forget the waking, next morning; the being cheerful and fresh for the first moment, and then the being weighed down by the stale and dismal oppression of remembrance.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Earth's surface falls locally when it is weighed down with water and rebounds when the weight disappears.

(Sierras Lost Water Weight, Grew Taller During Drought, NASA)

I am so glad that he has plenty of work to do, for that keeps his mind off the terrible things; and oh, I am rejoiced that he is not now weighed down with the responsibility of his new position.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then I spurred on my animal, striving so to forget the world, my fears, and more than all, myself—or, in a more desperate fashion, I alighted and threw myself on the grass, weighed down by horror and despair.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He looked about him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is weighed down with some great anxiety.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)