weight down
Secure with mass
To weight down is to make something heavy enough that it stays in place or sinks: She weighted down the tablecloth with rocks so it wouldn't blow away.
Figuratively, to be weighted down is to be burdened or oppressed: weighted down by debt, weighted down with worry.
The physical sense of anchoring extends naturally to emotional or financial heaviness.
- encumberTo burden or hinder
- loadCarried weight or burden
- carry the loadAccept the main responsibility
- oppressUnjustly burden or dominate
- burdenOppressive weight or duty
millstone · overwhelm · sink · heft · anchor · impede · drag · ballast · heavy · shoulders · saddle · weary · strain · stress · stones · gravity · baggage · crush
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