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weigh against

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weigh something against something
to ponder something by balancing it against something. I weighed going to town against staying here and sleeping and I decided to stay here. When I weigh your suggestion against my own ideas, I realize that I must follow my own conscience.
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weigh against someone or something

Fig. to count against someone or something; [for some fact] to work against someone or something. I hope my many absences do not weigh against me on the final grade. This will weigh against you.
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There are many physical as well as moral facts which corroborate this opinion, and some few that would seem to weigh against it.
The Last of The Mohicans by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
You don't mean that these words, uttered in a hurried moment, are to weigh against a whole life's devotion?
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
But there was the reference to David, and there was the known affection of the Colonel for his wife, to weigh against it, to say nothing of the tragic intrusion of this other man, which might, of course, be entirely disconnected with what had gone before.
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
 
 
 
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