Weighten
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Weighten is a verb meaning (transitive, literal) To add or give weight to; make heavy.
Meaning
(transitive, literal) To add or give weight to; make heavy.
More Meanings
- (transitive, figurative) To give support or importance to; make weighty
- (transitive, by extension) To weigh down
- (intransitive) To become heavy
Example Sentences
Her lids weightened, slightly hooding violet eyes that mesmerically followed the teardrop trailings.
Efforts were made to cheer the King, and rouse him from the depression with which his sorrows began to weighten him.
The idea of all this shifting was simply to weighten the bows, thereby lightening the stern, and so obtain the utmost hydrodynamic benefit.
In the case of a conflict it either prompts the user for more specific observations, weightens the reliability of the results in order to prefer the most likely one, or tums over the diagnosis task to the particular diagnoses expert agents again.
Word Forms
- weightens
- weightening
- weightened
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include weight, weigh, beweigh, weigh in, ponderate, reweigh.
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