Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to weighten
Participle: weightened
Gerund: weightening
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | weighten |
| you | weighten |
| he;she;it | weightens |
| we | weighten |
| you | weighten |
| they | weighten |
Perfect
| I | have weightened |
| you | have weightened |
| he;she;it | has weightened |
| we | have weightened |
| you | have weightened |
| they | have weightened |
Past
| I | weightened |
| you | weightened |
| he;she;it | weightened |
| we | weightened |
| you | weightened |
| they | weightened |
Pluperfect
| I | had weightened |
| you | had weightened |
| he;she;it | had weightened |
| we | had weightened |
| you | had weightened |
| they | had weightened |
Future
| I | will weighten |
| you | will weighten |
| he;she;it | will weighten |
| we | will weighten |
| you | will weighten |
| they | will weighten |
Future Perfect
| I | will have weightened |
| you | will have weightened |
| he;she;it | will have weightened |
| we | will have weightened |
| you | will have weightened |
| they | will have weightened |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | weighten |
| you | weighten |
| he;she;it | weighten |
| we | weighten |
| you | weighten |
| they | weighten |
Perfect
| I | have weightened |
| you | have weightened |
| he;she;it | have weightened |
| we | have weightened |
| you | have weightened |
| they | have weightened |
Imperfect
| I | weightened |
| you | weightened |
| he;she;it | weightened |
| we | weightened |
| you | weightened |
| they | weightened |
Pluperfect
| I | had weightened |
| you | had weightened |
| he;she;it | had weightened |
| we | had weightened |
| you | had weightened |
| they | had weightened |
Conditional
Present
| I | would weighten |
| you | would weighten |
| he;she;it | would weighten |
| we | would weighten |
| you | would weighten |
| they | would weighten |
Perfect
| I | would have weightened |
| you | would have weightened |
| he;she;it | would have weightened |
| we | would have weightened |
| you | would have weightened |
| they | would have weightened |
Imperative
| you | weighten |
| we | Let's weighten |
| you | weighten |
Verbs conjugated like 'weighten'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'weighten'
heighten,
benighten,
blighten,
brighten,
freighten,
frighten,
lighten,
nighten,
retighten,
righten,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From weight + -en.
Sample Sentences
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The idea of all this shifting was simply to weighten the bows, thereby lightening the stern, and so obtain the utmost hydrodynamic benefit. [2001, Bernard Moitessier, Sailing to the Reefs, page 214:]
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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. [1998, Sahin Albayrak, Intelligent Agents for Telecommunications Applications:]
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Efforts were made to cheer the King, and rouse him from the depression with which his sorrows began to weighten him. [1880, Charles Octavius S. Morgan, Historical traditions and facts relating to Newport and Caerleon:]
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That saturating hopelessness of the wholly corrupt state, the invisible but dense fog which weightens the movements of all within it, on this night, just before an election, with everyone turning out in a beautiful venue on a sunny evening, that hopelessness seemed imperceptibly to be lifting. [2017, Dominic Dromgoole, Hamlet: Globe to Globe: Two Years, 190,000 Miles, 197 Countries, One Play:]
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Her lids weightened, slightly hooding violet eyes that mesmerically followed the teardrop trailings. [1987, Mary Brendan, Beloved avenger, page 29:]