overbalance

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To be more important than

   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.
2. 2

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

3. 3

   To throw (someone or something) off balance

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

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   1. 4

      To lose one's balance

      To lose one's balance; to fall over.

   2. 5

      Excess of weight or value

      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 […]

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