overbalance

verb, noun — 5 senses

overbalance

verb

/ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈbæləns/

Etymology From over- + balance.

1

To be more important than; to outweigh.

  • I thought of giving up this club, which was expensive and of no service to me, and the amusement overbalanced by the late hours.1793, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 225
2

To cause an imbalance in (something) by means of excess weight or numbers.

3

To throw (someone or something) off balance; to cause to capsize.

4

To lose one's balance; to fall over.

overbalance

noun

/ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌbæləns/

Etymology From over- + balance.

1

Excess of weight or value; something more than an equivalent.

  • 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 […]a. 1758, Jonathan Edwards, Original Sin:

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