weigh down

2 definitions found

weigh down - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  weigh down
      v 1: be oppressive or disheartening to [syn: weigh down,
           weigh on] [ant: buoy up, lighten, lighten up]
      2: exert a force with a heavy weight; "The snow bore down on the
         roof" [syn: drag down, bear down, bear down on, press   down on
         , weigh down]

weigh down - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  50 Moby Thesaurus words for "weigh down":
     ballast, bear hard upon, burden, cramp, cripple, cumber, embarrass,
     encumber, enmesh, ensnarl, entangle, entoil, entrammel, entrap,
     entwine, fetter, go hard with, go ill with, hamper, hamstring,
     handicap, hobble, impede, involve, lame, lead, lie on, lime, load,
     lumber, net, oppress, overburden, overload, press, press down,
     sadden, saddle with, sandbag, shackle, snarl, tangle, toil,
     trammel, try one, weigh heavy on, weigh on, weigh upon, weight,
     weight down