weight down

• Verbo frasal que significa tornar algo mais pesado ou sobrecarregar alguém ou algo com um peso, tanto física quanto metaforicamente.

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

incontável · transitivo · phrasal, separável

1. Make heavyformal

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

   Sobrecarregar

   • 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.

   Sinônimosburdenencumberfreighthamperloadsaddletaxweigh down

   Antônimoslightenunburden

2. Burden or oppressinformal

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

   Sobrecarregar

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

   Sinônimosburdendepressencumberhamperoppressoverloadsaddletaxtroubleweigh downworry

Verbo baseweight