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weight down

v. weight down with a load [syn: burden, burthen, weight] [ant: unburden]

Usage examples of "weight down".

Momentum threw his full weight down toward the river, but his left hand held tight.

If her physician's latest combination of injections couldn't keep her weight down better than this ….

So much that he sets the weight down and stalks back to the phone handing on the wall, hits *69.

It was small enough, but do what we would we could not get its weight down under about forty pounds a man.

I beat my head against the back support, hit it and hit it and hit it again until the pain in my head overwhelmed the pain in my legs, and then I let the weight down and slammed it back up, then down again, no pause, my legs almost throwing the weight.

After a while this ceased, and then came the scuffling and shuffling of men's feet as they carried a heavy weight down the steep and winding stairs.

Several times he had started to put his weight down upon places that would not support him, only to be saved by his quick reflexes.

The plastic explosive packed into the warhead kept the weight down but was capable of producing the equivalent of up to three-quarters of a ton of TNT.

Haluin could not kneel without something firm before him to which to cling, and Cadfaels arm about him to ease his weight down gently, sharing the burden with his companions one serviceable foot.