Meaning of weighten | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To add or give weight to; make heavy
   transitive
2. To give support or importance to; make weighty
   figuratively, transitive
3. To weigh down
   broadly, transitive
4. To become heavy
   intransitive

Examples

“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.”

“Efforts were made to cheer the King, and rouse him from the depression with which his sorrows began to weighten him.”

“That saturating hopelessness of the wholly corrupt state, the invisible but dense fog which weightens the movements of all within it, on this night, just before an election, with everyone turning out in a beautiful venue on a sunny evening, that hopelessness seemed imperceptibly to be lifting.”

“Her lids weightened, slightly hooding violet eyes that mesmerically followed the teardrop trailings.”

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