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vb. (en-third-person singularweigh down)
Usage examples of "weighs down".
Without the prolonged oppression that weighs down consciences, and the danger to life always imminent, no city or province would have attempted secession.
When we shall have reached that peace, this mortal life shall give place to one that is eternal, and our body shall be no more this animal body which by its corruption weighs down the soul, but a spiritual body feeling no want, and in all its members subjected to the will.
The crushing sense of misfortune which, for the first few days after the unexpected blow has fallen, weighs down the self-deceived or otherwise unprepared victims.
The body is weary and the soul is sore weary and sleep weighs down their eyelids.
So at last my cope is finished, and handsomely received and blessed, and now almost weighs down poor old Fr.