| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To be of significance or importance: count, import, matter, signify. See IMPORTANT. 2. To think or think about carefully and at length: chew on or (over), cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, entertain, excogitate, meditate, mull, muse1, ponder, reflect, revolve, ruminate, study, think, think out, think over, think through, turn over. Idioms: cudgel one's brains, put on one's thinking cap, rack one's brain. See THOUGHTS. | | PHRASAL VERB: | weigh down To make sad or gloomy: deject, depress, dispirit, oppress, sadden. See HAPPY. weigh on To come to mind continually: haunt, obsess, torment, trouble. See REPETITION.
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