weight down

• Фразовый глагол, означающий сделать что-то тяжелее или обременить кого-то или что-то тяжелым грузом, как физически, так и метафорически.

A phrasal verb meaning to make something heavier or to burden someone or something with a heavy load, either physically or metaphorically.

uncountable · transitive · phrasal, separable

1. Make heavyformal

   To add weight to something, making it heavier or harder to move.

   Утяжелить

   • They weighted down the tent with heavy stones.
   • The cargo was weighted down with extra sandbags.
   • She weighted down the papers with a book to keep them from blowing away.

   Synonymsburdenencumberfreighthamperloadsaddletaxweigh down

   Antonymslightenunburden

2. Burden or oppressinformal

   To cause someone to feel burdened, worried, or depressed.

   Обременять

   • The constant criticism began to weight him down.
   • Financial problems are weighting her down.
   • The responsibility of caring for his parents weighted him down.

   Synonymsburdendepressencumberhamperoppressoverloadsaddletaxtroubleweigh downworry

Base verbweight