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n.
amount weighed, heaviness
1) to gain, put on weight
2) to lose, take off weight
3) dead; gross; minimum; net weight
4) atomic; avoirdupois; birth; molecular weight
5) under a weight (the table collapsed under the weight of the food)
device used for its heaviness in athletic exercises
6) to lift weights
7) heavy; light weights
8) a set of weights
importance
9) to carry weight
10) to add; attach, give, lend weight to
11) considerable weight
12) (misc.) to throw one's weight around/about (BE) ('to flaunt one's influence'); to pull one's weight ('to do one's fair share')
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v. (D; tr.) ('to slant') to weight against (the evidence was weighted against me)