counterbalance
noun
a weight balancing another weight; an equal weight, power, or influence acting in opposition; counterpoise.
have counterbalanced
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present perfectof counterbalance.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Thanks to Ibrahim Pasha’s terrible visitation the men of the tribe were wholly unarmed, and my advantage in this respect might have counterbalanced in some measure the superiority of numbers.
From Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East by Alexander William Kinglake
Such are the early traces of monastic principles and institutions, which, in a subsequent age, have counterbalanced all the temporal advantages of Christianity.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 by Henry Hart Milman
It is this scarcity of work which in part seems to have counterbalanced the improvements which promised so well.
From The Hills and the Vale by Richard Jefferies
They had prevented the President from building up a strong Administration group wherewith he might have counterbalanced the Jacobins.
From Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson
Now you have counterbalanced all your fine speeches and compliments.
From From Jest to Earnest by Edward Payson Roe
