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weighed down

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Adj.1.weighed down - full of; bearing great weight; "trees heavy with fruit"; "vines weighed down with grapes"
heavy
full - containing as much or as many as is possible or normal; "a full glass"; "a sky full of stars"; "a full life"; "the auditorium was full to overflowing"
2.weighed down - heavily burdened with work or cares; "bowed down with troubles"; "found himself loaded down with responsibilities"; "overburdened social workers"; "weighed down with cares"
bowed down, loaded down, overburdened
burdened - bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities; "she always felt burdened by the load of paper work"


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AN EAGLE was once captured by a man, who immediately clipped his wings and put him into his poultry-yard with the other birds, at which treatment the Eagle was weighed down with grief.
Fables by Aesop View in context
He was weighed down by debt, his brother's family was dependent on him, he was forced to write at heart-breaking speed, and is said never to have corrected his work.
Crime And Punishment by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
We enjoyed our walk--even Felix enjoyed it, although he had been appointed to write up the visit for Our Magazine and was rather weighed down by the responsibility of it.
The Golden Road by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
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