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Verb
weigh one's words (third-person singular simple present weighs one's words, present participle weighing one's words, simple past and past participle weighed one's words)
- (figuratively) To think carefully about what one will say.
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- “weigh your words” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
- “weigh your words” (US) / “weigh your words” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- “weigh one's words”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “weigh your words”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “weigh one's words”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.