weighten

Etymology

From weight + -en.

weighten means to add or give weight to; make heavy. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 91 out of 100.

verb

To add or give weight to; make heavy“The idea of all this shifting was simply to weighten the bows, thereby lightening the stern, and so obtain the utmost hydrodynamic benefit.”
To give support or importance to; make weighty“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.”
To weigh down“Efforts were made to cheer the King, and rouse him from the depression with which his sorrows began to weighten him.”
To become heavy“Her lids weightened, slightly hooding violet eyes that mesmerically followed the teardrop trailings.”