counterbalance
noun
verb (used with or without object), coun·ter·bal·anced, coun·ter·bal·anc·ing.
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outweigh, counteract, rectify, counterpoise, countervail, amend, redeem, compensate, equalize, cancel, balance, correctExamples from the Web for counterbalance
Contemporary Examples of counterbalance
As an alternative religious player, says Greaves, the Satanic Temple provides yet another “counterbalance.”
The goal: to get them to reconsider Likud as a counterbalance to Bennett's scary religiosity.
Like it or not, some companies will need to function as a counterbalance if publishers are to survive as a species.
So to counterbalance the Court's criticism of our ancestors, let me say a word in their praise: they left us free to change.
He used their weight to counterbalance them, each with one foot on the ground.
Historical Examples of counterbalance
In places our combined efforts could but just counterbalance the strength of the current.
The ForestStewart Edward White
Something must be done to counterbalance this certain loss to the Confederates.
Charles Carleton CoffinWilliam Elliot Griffis, D. D.
But the gift of life to the young is ever a counterbalance to every evil that is less than death.
Fardorougha, The MiserWilliam Carleton
We must allow it to counterbalance breaches of ordinary courtesy.
The Tragic Comedians, CompleteGeorge Meredith
But if she works for me she will more than counterbalance the fact that I am a stranger to the town.
The Day of JudgmentJoseph Hocking