weigh on sb/sth
— phrasal verb with weigh uk/weɪ/us/weɪ/verb
If a problem or responsibility weighs on you, it makes you worried or unhappy:
He's under huge pressure at work and it's really weighing on him.
She knew she had been unfair to him and it weighed heavily on her mind for a long time.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Causing anxiety and worry
- alarming
- bite
- catch up with sb
- come back to bite sb idiom
- come back/home to roost idiom
- flap
- frighten sb/sth away/off
- get/go beyond a joke idiom
- give sb the jitters idiom
- gnaw
- harass
- joke
- suspenseful
- sweat
- tense
- troubling
- unnerve
- unsettling
- weigh
- weigh sb down
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