weigh someone/something up

Examples of weighed

weighed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

At autopsy, the heart weighed 160 grams with marked enlargement of the right atrium, right ventricle and moderate enlargement of left ventricle.
The livers of these infected mice weighed less (1.14 6 0.14 g) than those of controls (1.32 6 0.13 g).
At maturity, plants were cut at soil level, and spikes and foliage were separated, dried and weighed.
At natural maturity, tubers from the whole trial were harvested immediately and weighed to determine tuber yield (kg).
The merits of relativism, however, must be weighed against the trap of exceptionalism.
Subadult individuals were all black-coated wild boar whose carcass weighed <50 kg, supposedly corresponding to 13- to 24-month-old animals.
Earmarking of financial resources to subsidize environmental investments is controversial, and the pros and cons need to be weighed in each specific case.
The labour requirements of the sugar companies had to be weighed against the political realities of mass unemployment and the rise of popular nationalism.
The media also weighed in, besides providing news and analysis.
At each visit, children were weighed and details of their health, diet and home environment were recorded.
But only to a point: the balance is heavily weighed in favour of illustrations and visual pleasure, often at the expense of descriptions.
Organs and tracts were removed from infected and control mice at 15, 40 and 100 days post-injection, weighed and processed for macroscopical and histological analyses.
There might be other values than welfare but the gains or losses in these values can be weighed against gains and losses in welfare.
He had weighed the brains of 29 normal men and found an average figure of 1323 grams.
The contents of the litterbags were then gently brushed clean, and weighed.
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