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• how much do you weigh (= how heavy are you)?
• she weighs 60 kilos.
• a healthy baby usually weighs 6 lbs or more.
• the average male tiger weighs around 200 kg.

weigh

Verb Forms

1. to have a particular weight
• How much do you weigh (= how heavy are you)?
• She weighs 60 kilos.
• A healthy baby usually weighs 6 lbs or more.
• The average male tiger weighs around 200 kg.
• The diamond weighs 4.50 carats.
• These cases weigh a ton (= are very heavy).
2. to measure how heavy somebody/something is, usually by using scales
• He weighed himself on the bathroom scales.
• Chicks were weighed and measured daily.
• She weighed the stone in her hand (= estimated how heavy it was by holding it).
3. to consider something carefully before making a decision
• You must weigh up the pros and cons (= consider the advantages and disadvantages of something).
• She weighed up all the evidence.
• You'll need to weigh up all your options.
• The jury weighed up the evidence carefully.
• I weighed the benefits of the plan against the risks involved.
• We weighed the cost of advertising against the likely gains from increased business.
4. to have an influence on somebody’s opinion or the result of something
• His past record weighs heavily against him.
• The evidence weighs in her favour.

Extra Examples

• This fact weighed heavily in her favour.
• His untidy appearance weighed against him.
5. to lift an anchor out of the water and into a boat before sailing away
6. to choose your words carefully so that you say exactly what you mean
• He spoke slowly, weighing his words.

Word Origin

• Old English wegan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch wegen ‘weigh’, German bewegen ‘move’, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin vehere ‘convey’. Early senses included ‘transport from one place to another’ and ‘raise up’.