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counterweighed

counterweighed is the simple past and past participle of counterweigh.

Meaning of counterweigh

Verb

counterweigh (third-person singular simple present counterweighs, present participle counterweighing, simple past and past participle counterweighed)

  1. (intransitive) To act as counterbalance (against something).
  2. (transitive) To counterbalance; to balance out.
    • Yet Francis's favour could not counterweigh the disastrous flaw in European Christian mission in Africa, its association with the Portuguese slave trade.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 709

Questions about counterweighed

What is counterweighed the simple past and past participle of?
Counterweighed is the simple past and past participle of counterweigh.

Words near counterweighed in the dictionary

  1. counterwars
  2. counterwave
  3. counterwaves
  4. counterwavy
  5. counterweigh
  6. counterweighed
  7. counterweighing
  8. counterweighs
  9. counterweight
  10. counterweighted
  11. counterweighting

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