heavy

adj.

1 weighing a lot

VERBS

▪ be, feel, look, seem

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My suitcase was beginning to feel very heavy.

▪ become, get, grow

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You're getting too heavy to carry!

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She felt her eyelids growing heavy (= she was getting sleepy).

▪ make sth

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The bottles of wine made the bag even heavier.

▪ find sth

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I didn't find it too heavy to carry.

ADVERB

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

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Be careful. That box is rather heavy.

2 worse than usual

VERBS

▪ be

▪ become, get

▪

The rain was getting very heavy.

ADVERB

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

▪

The traffic's really heavy on the roads today.

Heavy is used with these nouns: ↑accent, ↑armour, ↑artillery, ↑atmosphere, ↑bag, ↑barrage, ↑blanket, ↑bleeding, ↑blizzard, ↑blow, ↑bombardment, ↑bombing, ↑boot, ↑breast, ↑breath, ↑breathing, ↑brow, ↑build, ↑burden, ↑cargo, ↑cart, ↑casualty, ↑chain, ↑charge, ↑clay, ↑cloak, ↑clothing, ↑cloud, ↑coat, ↑cold, ↑commitment, ↑concentration, ↑construction, ↑consumer, ↑consumption, ↑cost, ↑cream, ↑criticism, ↑crop, ↑cruiser, ↑curtain, ↑damage, ↑debt, ↑defeat, ↑demand, ↑dependence, ↑dew, ↑door, ↑downpour, ↑drain, ↑drape, ↑drinker, ↑drinking, ↑duty, ↑emphasis, ↑engineering, ↑equipment, ↑exercise, ↑expenditure, ↑eyebrow, ↑eyelid, ↑fabric, ↑fall, ↑favourite, ↑fighting, ↑fine, ↑fire, ↑flow, ↑fog, ↑fold, ↑foliage, ↑footstep, ↑freight, ↑fringe, ↑frost, ↑frown, ↑gambler, ↑garment, ↑gate, ↑glasses, ↑guard, ↑gun, ↑gunfire, ↑heart, ↑hint, ↑horse, ↑housework, ↑impact, ↑industry, ↑investment, ↑irony, ↑jacket, ↑jumper, ↑layer, ↑lid, ↑load, ↑lorry, ↑loss, ↑luggage, ↑lump, ↑lunch, ↑machinery, ↑make-up, ↑manufacturing, ↑mascara, ↑meal, ↑metal, ↑mist, ↑mob, ↑mortar, ↑music, ↑object, ↑oil, ↑overcoat, ↑pack, ↑penalty, ↑period, ↑plough, ↑punishment, ↑rain, ↑rainfall, ↑reading, ↑reliance, ↑responsibility, ↑rock, ↑sack, ↑sacrifice, ↑sarcasm, ↑saucepan, ↑scent, ↑schedule, ↑sea, ↑sedation, ↑sentence, ↑shading, ↑shawl, ↑shoe, ↑shopping, ↑shower, ↑sigh, ↑silence, ↑silk, ↑sleep, ↑smog, ↑smoke, ↑smoker, ↑smoking, ↑snow, ↑snowfall, ↑soil, ↑spectacles, ↑steering, ↑step, ↑stone, ↑storm, ↑strain, ↑subsidy, ↑suitcase, ↑surf, ↑sweat, ↑sweater, ↑swell, ↑taxation, ↑thud, ↑thump, ↑timber, ↑toll, ↑trading, ↑traffic, ↑tread, ↑truck, ↑turnout, ↑usage, ↑use, ↑user, ↑velvet, ↑volume, ↑weapon, ↑wear, ↑weight, ↑work, ↑workload