Overbalance

Quick meaning: Overbalance is a verb meaning To be more important than; to outweigh.

Meaning

To be more important than; to outweigh.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To cause an imbalance in (something) by means of excess weight or numbers.
2. (transitive) To throw (someone or something) off balance; to cause to capsize.
3. (intransitive) To lose one's balance; to fall over.
4. Excess of weight or value; something more than an equivalent.

Example Sentences

an overbalance of exports

[…] if there is in man's nature a tendency to guilt and ill desert in a vast overbalance to virtue and merit […]

I thought of giving up this club, which was expensive and of no service to me, and the amusement overbalanced by the late hours.

Word Forms

• overbalances
• overbalancing
• overbalanced

Synonyms for overbalance

Depending on context, synonyms include outweigh, outbalance, preponderate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include outweigh, outbalance, preponderate, overweigh, overpoise, outsum.

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