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of comparatively great physical weight or density;
\\\"a heavy load\\\"
\\\"lead is a heavy metal\\\"
\\\"heavy mahogany furniture\\\"
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unusually great in degree or quantity or number;
\\\"heavy taxes\\\"
\\\"a heavy fine\\\"
\\\"heavy casualties\\\"
\\\"heavy losses\\\"
\\\"heavy rain\\\"
\\\"heavy traffic\\\"
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of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment;
\\\"heavy artillery\\\"
\\\"heavy infantry\\\"
\\\"a heavy cruiser\\\"
\\\"heavy guns\\\"
\\\"heavy industry involves large-scale production of basic products (such as steel) used by other industries\\\"
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marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness;
\\\"a heavy heart\\\"
\\\"a heavy schedule\\\"
\\\"heavy news\\\"
\\\"a heavy silence\\\"
\\\"heavy eyelids\\\"
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usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
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(used of soil) compact and fine-grained;
\\\"the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated\\\"
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darkened by clouds;
\\\"a heavy sky\\\"
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of great intensity or power or force;
\\\"a heavy blow\\\"
\\\"the fighting was heavy\\\"
\\\"heavy seas\\\"
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(physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight;
\\\"heavy hydrogen\\\"
\\\"heavy water\\\"
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(of an actor or role) being or playing the villain;
\\\"Iago is the heavy role in `Othello\\\'\\\"
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permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter;
\\\"dense smoke\\\"
\\\"heavy fog\\\"
\\\"impenetrable gloom\\\"
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of relatively large extent and density;
\\\"a heavy line\\\"
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made of fabric having considerable thickness;
\\\"a heavy coat\\\"
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prodigious;
\\\"big spender\\\"
\\\"big eater\\\"
\\\"heavy investor\\\"
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full and loud and deep;
\\\"heavy sounds\\\"
\\\"a herald chosen for his sonorous voice\\\"
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given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors;
\\\"a hard drinker\\\"
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of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought;
\\\"grave responsibilities\\\"
\\\"faced a grave decision in a time of crisis\\\"
\\\"a grievous fault\\\"
\\\"heavy matters of state\\\"
\\\"the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference\\\"
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slow and laborious because of weight;
\\\"the heavy tread of tired troops\\\"
\\\"moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot\\\"
\\\"ponderous prehistoric beasts\\\"
\\\"a ponderous yawn\\\"
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large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work;
\\\"a heavy truck\\\"
\\\"heavy machinery\\\"
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dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal;
\\\"a heavy pudding\\\"
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sharply inclined;
\\\"a heavy grade\\\"
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full of; bearing great weight;
\\\"trees heavy with fruit\\\"
\\\"vines weighed down with grapes\\\"
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requiring or showing effort;
\\\"heavy breathing\\\"
\\\"the subject made for labored reading\\\"
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characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort;
\\\"worked their arduous way up the mining valley\\\"
\\\"a grueling campaign\\\"
\\\"hard labor\\\"
\\\"heavy work\\\"
\\\"heavy going\\\"
\\\"spent many laborious hours on the project\\\"
\\\"set a punishing pace\\\"
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lacking lightness or liveliness;
\\\"heavy humor\\\"
\\\"a leaden conversation\\\"
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(of sleep) deep and complete;
\\\"a heavy sleep\\\"
\\\"fell into a profound sleep\\\"
\\\"a sound sleeper\\\"
\\\"deep wakeless sleep\\\"
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in an advanced stage of pregnancy;
\\\"was big with child\\\"
\\\"was great with child\\\"