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To weigh down

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To overbalance.
To oppress with weight; to overburden; to depress.
- Milton.
to sink by its own weight.

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Taken altogether, it was a dreadfully long name to weigh down a poor innocent child, and one of the hardest lessons I ever learned was to remember my own name.
There is always something to weigh down the spiritual side in all of us.
No premonition of impending ill cast gloom over his anticipations for the coming day, for Bradley was a man who, while taking every precaution against possible danger, permitted no gloomy forebodings to weigh down his spirit.
 
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