overbalance
Americanverb (used with object)
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to outweigh.
The opportunity overbalances the disadvantages of leaving town.
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to cause to lose balance or to fall or turn over.
He accidentally overbalanced a vase.
noun
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an excessive weight or amount.
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something that more than balances or more than equals.
An overbalance of imports depleted the country's treasury.
verb
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to lose or cause to lose balance
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(tr) another word for outweigh
noun
Etymology
Origin of overbalance
Example Sentences
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Consider the overbalance of gloss-black surfaces—not just the grille form but the roof, roof racks, roof pillars, bumpers, mirror caps, rear diffuser thingy, deep-tinted rear glass and heavy window masking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
This book is important and in certain ways I admired Barnett’s decision to overbalance her and her clients’ struggles with joy.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2020
If the managers of the individual ETFs overbalance a certain asset, that concentration risk can be compounded, Magoon says.
From US News ● Sep. 30, 2016
And Coleridge “made of Hamlet a Coleridge,” a man who, in Coleridge’s words, suffers from “an overbalance in the contemplative faculty,” and thus “loses his natural power of action.”
From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2012
About halfway I started to overbalance and swung my legs backward to keep from tipping over.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
“There was an economy that probably wasn’t balanced, but wasn’t horribly overbalanced in one direction — then that became horribly unbalanced.”
From The Verge ● Apr. 8, 2022
The match was closed out on the 17th despite a quite sensational shot from Spieth, who nearly ended up running into the lake as he overbalanced while playing from heavy rough.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2021
Hubbard overbalanced on her opening weight of 120 kilograms, taking the bar behind her shoulders.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2021
It must give way, the court determined, when overbalanced by the “legitimate needs” of another branch of government—in Nixon, the judiciary—in fulfilling its own constitutional role.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2020
The man nearly overbalanced, but held on to the rail and swung the boat hook round in another attempt.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
But he is in danger of overbalancing the entire film: this is a rock’n’roll performance from someone who is usually happier with piano sonatas.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 28, 2021
Levin’s playing was heavy-handed and shapeless, chugging mechanically along and sometimes overbalancing Hahn’s more restrained, often vibratoless violin lines.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2016
The effect of this overbalancing is shown in Fig.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 by Various
The large fish are secured by spearing, amid much excitement, the eager sportsmen often overbalancing themselves and falling headlong into the water to the great amusement of the more lucky ones.
From British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo by Treacher, W. H. (William Hood), Sir
The selfish person who does operate the laws, does so by overbalancing his selfishness with some other great virtue.
From The Silence: What It Is and How To Use It by Bush, David V.
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