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    weigh
    [wā]
    verb
    weigh (verb) · weighs (third person present) · weighed (past tense) · weighed (past participle) · weighing (present participle)
    1. find out how heavy (someone or something) is, typically using scales:
      "weigh yourself on the day you begin the diet" · "the vendor weighed the vegetables"
      • have a specified weight:
        "when the twins were born they weighed ten pounds"
      • balance in the hands to guess or as if to guess the weight of:
        "she picked up the brick and weighed it in her right hand"
    2. assess the nature or importance of, especially with a view to a decision or action:
      "the consequences of the move would need to be very carefully weighed" · "they need to weigh benefit against risk"
      • influence a decision or action; be considered important:
        "the evidence weighed heavily against him"
    Origin
    Old English wegan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch wegen ‘weigh’, German bewegen ‘move’, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin vehere ‘convey’. Early senses included ‘transport from one place to another’ and ‘raise up’.
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    verb
    1. find out how heavy (someone or something) is, typically using scales:
      measure the weight of
      measure how heavy someone/something is
      put someone/something on the scales
      • have a specified weight:
        tip/turn the scales at
    2. assess the nature or importance of, especially with a view to a decision or action:
      give thought to
      entertain the idea of
      deliberate about
      turn over in one's mind
      mull over
      reflect on
      ruminate about
      muse on
      inquire into
      make inquiries into
      take stock of
      Opposite:
      take on trust
     
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