weighten

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To add or give weight to; make heavy transitive
    — The idea of all this shifting was simply to weighten the bows, thereby lightening the stern, and so obtain the utmost hydrodynamic benefit.
  2. To give support or importance to; make weighty figuratively,transitive
    — In the case of a conflict it either prompts the user for more specific observations, weightens the reliability of the results in order to prefer the most likely one, or tums over the diagnosis task to the particular diagnoses expert agents again.
  3. To weigh down broadly,transitive
    — Efforts were made to cheer the King, and rouse him from the depression with which his sorrows began to weighten him.
  4. To become heavy intransitive
    — Her lids weightened, slightly hooding violet eyes that mesmerically followed the teardrop trailings.

词形变化

weightens present,singular,third-person weightening participle,present weightened participle,past weightened past

词源

From weight + -en.
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