counterweigh
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of counterweigh
1400–50; late Middle English countreweyen; see counter-, weigh 1
Example Sentences
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Experts say the Vasa sunk because it lacked the ballast to counterweigh its heavy guns.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 25, 2022
Just more than a year earlier, Nancy Dubuc had left A&E to become president of the History Channel with a mission to counterweigh the network's battle anniversary tributes with more confectionary original content.
From BusinessWeek • Oct. 21, 2010
A rough gauge of where that balance lies can be found in the military muscle of Iran and Syria, the two heavies that Iraq's forces must counterweigh.
From Time Magazine Archive
Will any assistance to memory, counterweigh the annihilation or benumbing of the instinct of pity?
From Vivisection by Leffingwell, Albert
He so chastened his harshness with mercy, that he seemed to counterweigh the one with the other.
From The Danish History, Books I-IX by Saxo, Grammaticus
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