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Synonyms: Weighed DownSynonyms: bowed down(p) (adj), heavy (adj), loaded down(p) (adj), overburdened (adj), weighed down(p) (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Weighed Down |
| English words defined with "weighed down": heavy ♦ troy weight ♦ Waid. (references) |
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Lyrics | Weighed down like a beast of burden about to break your back. (Just Can't Last; performing artist: Natalie Merchant) | |
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Business | A car-owner with a medium-size car spends approximately $1,000 annually just to possess a car. In the past five years, inflation and vehicle prices (up roughly 7.5%)have remained low; however, fuel prices (up 15%) and transfer of car ownership costs (up 25%) have soared, not to mention the prospected 50% increase in car insurance in 2001. The automotive sector is still weighed down by a tax load that dampens domestic demand. (references) | |
Economic History | Singapore | Computer production was affected by weak demand for home PCs and servers, the semiconductors industry was hit by excess inventories in global markets, and data storage companies were weighed down by declining disk drive prices. (references) |
Political Economy | Argentina | Policy initiatives of the administration slowed considerably during Menem's second term, weighed down by increasingly credible claims of public sector corruption, particularly linked to the privatization of state companies. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "weighed down": weighed down by cares. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "weighed down"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | huolten painama (care-worn, weighed down by cares). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | beladen (burden, burdened, encumber, freight, Lade, laden, load, load down, loaded, stowage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 倒れ掛かる (to be weighed down by debt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たおれかかる (to be weighed down by debt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eighedway ownday copleşit de griji (weighed down by cares). (various references) tyngd (Bob, gravity, heaviness, load, ponderosity, weight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-g-h-i-n-o-w-w" | |
-3 letters: hoidened, windowed. | |
-4 letters: deeding, deigned, endowed, heeding, hogweed, howdied, indowed, neighed, wedding, weeding, weighed, wendigo, whinged, widened, widgeon, widowed. | |
-5 letters: denied, dewing, dinged, dowing, downed, dwined, gowned, hedged, hewing, hidden, hinged, hodden, hoddin, hoeing, hoiden, honied, howdie, indeed, nighed, wedged, wedgie, wended, whined, whinge, wigeon, winded, window, winged, wowing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 65 69 67 68 65 64 44 6F 77 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01100101 01101001 01100111 01101000 01100101 01100100 00100000 01000100 01101111 01110111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W e i g h e d   D o w n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0065 0069 0067 0068 0065 0064 0044 006F 0077 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)57717573747170238818980 |
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