weigh down in English

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      "form": "weigh down",
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  "lang_code": "en",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We used some sandbags to weigh down the balloon."
        }
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        "If you weigh down something, you use weights to hold it in place."
      ],
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    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "All the news of murder and famine is weighing me down."
        }
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        "If you weigh down someone, they have too much things to do or to cope with."
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    {
      "form": "weigh down",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Expression"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "expression"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We used some sandbags to weigh down the balloon."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you weigh down something, you use weights to hold it in place."
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "All the news of murder and famine is weighing me down."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you weigh down someone, they have too much things to do or to cope with."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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"weigh down" meaning in English

Phrase