Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To weigh heavily upon; bear down; depress.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To bear down; to depress.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, nonce word To
bear down ; todepress .
Etymologies
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Latin praegravatus, past participle of praegravare to be heavy upon, from praegravis very heavy.
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