"weigh up" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "weighs up",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weighing up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weighed up",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weighed up",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "weigh up (third-person singular simple present weighs up, present participle weighing up, simple past and past participle weighed up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She looked at him carefully, trying to weigh him up. Was he really telling the truth?",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To assess a person or a situation."
      ],
      "id": "en-weigh_up-en-verb-IpHKw2l7",
      "links": [
        [
          "assess",
          "assess"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive) To assess a person or a situation."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "size up"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "assess a situation",
          "word": "inschatten"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "assess a situation",
          "word": "peilen"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "hyōka suru",
          "sense": "assess a situation",
          "word": "評価する"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "assess a situation",
          "word": "whakaraupeka"
        },
        {
          "alt": "проције́нити",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "assess a situation",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "procijéniti"
        },
        {
          "alt": "процјењи́вати",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "assess a situation",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "procjenjívati"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "assess a situation",
          "word": "sopesar"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "assess a situation",
          "word": "sompesar"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "weigh up"
}

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    {
      "form": "weighs up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "weighing up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weighed up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weighed up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "size up"
    }
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      ],
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          "assess"
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      ],
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    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "assess a situation",
      "word": "inschatten"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "assess a situation",
      "word": "peilen"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hyōka suru",
      "sense": "assess a situation",
      "word": "評価する"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "assess a situation",
      "word": "whakaraupeka"
    },
    {
      "alt": "проције́нити",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "assess a situation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "procijéniti"
    },
    {
      "alt": "процјењи́вати",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "assess a situation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "procjenjívati"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "assess a situation",
      "word": "sopesar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "assess a situation",
      "word": "sompesar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "weigh up"
}