overbalance

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
23
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈbæləns/
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/ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈbæləns/ · /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌbæləns/

Definition of overbalance

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  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.”
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verb

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

noun

  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 […]”

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Etymology

From over- + balance.

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