Wiktionary
vb. (en-pastweigh down)
WordNet
adj. full of; bearing great weight; "trees heavy with fruit"; "vines weighed down with grapes" [syn: heavy]
heavily burdened with work or cares; "bowed down with troubles"; "found himself loaded down with responsibilities"; "overburdened social workers"; "weighed down with cares" [syn: bowed down(p), loaded down(p), overburdened, weighed down(p)]
Usage examples of "weighed down".
In their room they did not bother to relight the lamp, but went to bed in darkness, weighed down by the indifference with which Keoki had charged them.
Great columns of black spruce, weighed down by ton upon ton of new snow, rose up like a city around them.
Help me, O Lord my God, and I will not fear how much soever I be weighed down.
She was too frightened and weighed down by a sense of past guilt to try to understand it.
And it came to pass in those days, as it had come before and would come again, that the Dark lay heavy on the land and weighed down the hearts of men, and the green things failed, and hope died.
But it's difficult enough for Alpha Squad to pull off a mission like this when we're not weighed down with excess bagĀ.
She had hardly strength to raise her eyes, the heavy lids of which seemed to be constantly falling, weighed down either with grief or shame.