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counterweighs

counterweighs is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 counterweighs

What is counterweighs the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Counterweighs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of counterweigh.

Words near counterweighs in the dictionary

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

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