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1. heaviness, heft, heftiness, weightiness, ponderousness, ponderosity, gravity; pounds, tonnage, pressure; mass, density, volume, size; bulk, bulkiness, largeness, bigness, amplitude.

2. load, burden, onus, cross, millstone, albatross; duty, charge, obligation, responsibility, tax; strain, encumbrance, impediment, hindrance, handicap; trouble, care, anxiety, worry; hardship, difficulty, affliction, oppression; trial, tribulation, ordeal; woe, grief, misery, sorrow, Archaic. bale.

3. importance, significance, consequence, matter, value, concern, Archaic. concernment; moment, weightiness, substance, greatness, magnitude, force; graveness, seriousness, solemnity; influence, power, force, strength, pressure; effect, impact, clout; sway, mastery, hold.

4. carry weight

have importance or meaning, be significant; influence, affect, sway, bias, incline; act on, play on, work on, effect; move, impel, motivate, actuate; persuade, Inf. jawbone, rouse, arouse, instigate.

5. pull one's weight

do one's fair share, do one's part, cooperate.

6. throw one's weight around

swing one's weight, Inf. pull strings, Inf. pull rank, Inf. pull wires; Sl. be a big shot, Inf. boss [s.o.] around.

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7. weight down, load, add weight to, tax. See weigh(def. 5a).

8. bias, slant; handicap, give a handicap, make allowances.