verb
- Be oppressive or disheartening to.
- synonyms: weigh down, weigh on
- Exert a force with a heavy weight.
- usage: "The snow bore down on the roof"
- synonyms: drag down, bear down, bear down on, press down on, weigh down
adjective
- Full of; bearing great weight.
- usage: "trees heavy with fruit"; "vines weighed down with grapes"
- synonyms: heavy
- Heavily burdened with work or cares.
- usage: "bowed down with troubles"; "found himself loaded down with responsibilities"; "overburdened social workers"; "weighed down with cares"
- synonyms: bowed down, loaded down, overburdened
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