counterbalance

He used their weight to counterbalance them, each with one foot on the ground.

John thought of all the sins which he had committed, and found no good deeds to counterbalance them.

Congreve makes twelve thousand pounds more than a counterbalance to the affection of Belinda.

A revival of religion to counterbalance, as it were, the revival of brutality, is a recurring phenomenon of great wars.

She no longer needed the Protestants to counterbalance the Guises and the Constable.

To counterbalance these motives was the danger, whatever it might amount to, and which did not weigh heavily on my mind.