overbalance
to outweigh: The opportunity overbalances the disadvantages of leaving town.
to cause to lose balance or to fall or turn over: He accidentally overbalanced a vase.
an excessive weight or amount.
something that more than balances or more than equals: An overbalance of imports depleted the country's treasury.
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How to use overbalance in a sentence
The certainty that his whole life hereafter must be one long act of treachery to Greif must overbalance everything else.
Greifenstein | F. Marion CrawfordBut if the elder brother had in one instance the advantage, still Henry had a resource to overbalance this article.
Nature and Art | Mrs. InchbaldThree sessions with a good record might overbalance the loss in public confidence this would incur.
A Mixture of Genius | Arnold CastleA little more and it would overbalance and carry the horse head over heels!
Hopes and Fears | Charlotte M. YongeBut Madame de Grandmaison and her companion were too well exercised in the gymnastics of gossip to overbalance themselves.
The Golden Dog | William Kirby
British Dictionary definitions for overbalance
excess of weight, value, etc
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