Usually means: Cause stress or emotional burden.
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  1. weigh on: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. weigh on: Merriam-Webster
  3. weigh on: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. weigh on: Vocabulary.com
  5. weigh on: Wiktionary
  6. weigh on: Dictionary.com
  7. weigh on: Rhymezone
  8. weigh on: FreeDictionary.org
  9. weigh on: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. weigh on: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. weigh on: Legal dictionary

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  1. weigh on: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (weigh on)

▸ verb:  (figuratively) To cause distress to or impose a burden on; to trouble.

Similar:
weigh down, burden, weight, hang on, bear on, lade, overweight, impose, emburden, crush, more...

Opposite:
weigh off, weigh out

Phrases:
weigh in on, weigh down on, weigh heavily on, more...

Adjectives:
heavier-than-air, troy, weighing, overweight, weighted, weightie, heavyweight, ponderal, catchweight, tared, veg

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Similar:
weigh down, burden, weight, hang on, bear on, lade, overweight, impose, emburden, crush, more...

Opposite:
weigh off, weigh out

Phrases:
weigh in on, weigh down on, weigh heavily on, more...

Adjectives:
heavier-than-air, troy, weighing, overweight, weighted, weightie, heavyweight, ponderal, catchweight, tared, veg



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