weighing down
Making something heavier
To weigh down is to make something heavier or harder to lift: The wet clothes weighed down my suitcase.
Figuratively, it means to burden or oppress: Guilt weighed down on her.
Someone weighed down by worries or responsibilities feels mentally heavy, unable to move freely through life.
- overburdeningLoading beyond capacity
- gravityMutual mass attraction
- encumberedMade difficult to move
- deadweightInert, unproductive mass
- loadCarried weight or burden
chain · ball and chain · suffocating · under pressure · heavy heart · heavyhearted · shackle · oppressed · grief · albatross · despair · millstone · guilt · dragging · anxiety · obligation · sagging · shoulders
weighing downlightening
Making lighter in weight/shade
raising · hoisting · elevating · buoying · levitating
weighing downlifting spirits
uplifting · cheering up · heartening · buoying up · lightening
weighing downfreeing
Releasing from confinement
releasing · liberating · setting free · unburdening · letting go
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