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Verb: weigh  wey
  1. Determine the weight of
    "The butcher weighed the chicken";
    - librate [archaic]
     
  2. Have a certain weight
     
  3. Show consideration for; take into account
    - consider, count
     
  4. Have weight; have import, carry weight
    "It does not weigh much";
    - count, matter
     
  5. To be oppressive or burdensome
    "weigh heavily on the mind";
    - press

Sounds like: watts, Watts, what', weigh, whey, W

Derived forms: weighing, weighs, weighed

Type of: be, measure, quantify, quantitate

Encyclopedia: Weigh, Stephen