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weigh

verb

1 the vendor at our market weighs the vegetables carefully:

measure the weight of, measure how heavy someone/something is, put someone/something on the scales.

2 he weighed 118 kg:

tip/turn the scales at, come to.

3 the destructive family situation weighed heavily on him:

oppress, lie heavy on, press down on, burden, be a burden on/to, weigh down, cast down, hang over, gnaw at, prey on, prey on someone's mind;

trouble, worry, beset, bother, disturb, upset, get someone down, depress, distress, grieve, haunt, nag, torment, afflict, perturb;

plague, obsess, take over, take control of.

4 the consequences of the move would need to be very carefully weighed | he has to weigh up the possibility of a conviction:

consider, contemplate, think about, give thought to, entertain the idea of, deliberate about, turn over in one's mind, mull over, chew over, reflect on, ruminate about, muse on;

assess, appraise, analyze, investigate, inquire into, look into, make inquiries into, examine, scrutinize, research, review, explore, probe, study, survey, inspect, take stock of;

North American think on.

▷antonyms ignore, take on trust.

5 they need to weigh benefit against risk:

balance;

compare with, evaluate, juxtapose with, place side by side (with), contrast with.

6 the opinions of chief fire officers will obviously weigh with the Government:

influence, have influence with, be influential to, carry weight with, count with, tell with, matter to, be important to, be significant to, mean something to, make an impression on, get to, register with.

□ weigh someone down

1 my waders and fishing gear weighed me down:

burden, weight, saddle, charge;

overload, overburden, overwhelm, encumber, hamper, handicap, tax, strain;

literary trammel.

2 the awful silence of the terrible prison weighed me down:

oppress, depress, lie heavy on, weigh on, press down on, burden, be a burden on/to, cast down, hang over, gnaw at, prey on, prey on someone's mind;

trouble, worry, beset, bother, disturb, upset, get someone down, distress, grieve, haunt, nag, torment, afflict, perturb;

plague, obsess, take over, take control of.

□ weigh into someone

he weighs into the tribunes with unmasked contempt:

attack, turn on, lash out at, set upon, assault, fly at, lunge at, let fly at, tear into, pitch into, belabor;

informal lay into, sail into, lace into, let someone have it, take a pop at;

North American, informal light into.