weigh/press/drag down; rest heavily on; overpower, overwhelm
Latin word, found 14 times in the texts on Socratos.
Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.352: degravat Aetna caput: sub qua resupinus harenas
Ovid, Tristia 5.3.35: fer, bone Liber, opem: sic altera degravet ulmum
Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 8.74.18: … fligitur. Paucis deponere felicitatem molliter licuit; ceteri cum iis, inter quae eminuere, labuntur et illos degravant ipsa, quae extulerant.
All forms of degravo