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Weigh down

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Verb
  1. 1
    To act as a ballast for. transitive

    "We used some sandbags to weigh down the balloon."

  2. 2
    exert a force with a heavy weight wordnet
  3. 3
    To be too much for someone to cope with. idiomatic, transitive

    "All the news of murder and famine is weighing me down."

  4. 4
    be oppressive or disheartening to wordnet

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