weighing

Pluralweighings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle of weigh. Use this form for the action happening now or as the name of the action.

   The nurse is weighing the newborn before the checkup.

   Weighing your luggage at home saves trouble at the airport.

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2. 2
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The act of measuring how heavy a thing is, usually with a scale.

   Like checking how heavy your backpack is before a long trip.

   The weighing of each bag made sure no one got too much.

   After the weighing, the doctor wrote down the baby's weight.

3. 3
   adjective

   Heavy on the mind and making someone feel worried or weighed down.

   Like a heavy bag on your shoulders that you can never set down.

   A weighing sense of guilt kept him awake all night.

   Her weighing worries about money never seemed to lift.

   Similarheavy, burdensome, oppressive, onerous

   Oppositelight

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