counterweigh
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of counterweigh
1400–50; late Middle English countreweyen; 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
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
How can a brother counterweigh His grievous loss with joys of sway, And see with dull unpitying eye So brave and good a brother die?
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
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