overbalance

[ verb oh-ver-bal-uhns; noun oh-ver-bal-uhns ]

verb (used with object)

, o·ver·bal·anced, o·ver·bal·anc·ing.

1. to outweigh:

   The opportunity overbalances the disadvantages of leaving town.

2. to cause to lose balance or to fall or turn over:

   He accidentally overbalanced a vase.

noun

1. an excessive weight or amount.
2. something that more than balances or more than equals:

   An overbalance of imports depleted the country's treasury.

overbalance

verb

1. to lose or cause to lose balance
2. See outweigh
   tr another word for outweigh

noun

1. excess of weight, value, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of overbalance¹

First recorded in 1600–10; over- + balance

Example Sentences

The certainty that his whole life hereafter must be one long act of treachery to Greif must overbalance everything else.

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But if the elder brother had in one instance the advantage, still Henry had a resource to overbalance this article.

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Three sessions with a good record might overbalance the loss in public confidence this would incur.

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A little more and it would overbalance and carry the horse head over heels!

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But Madame de Grandmaison and her companion were too well exercised in the gymnastics of gossip to overbalance themselves.

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