outweighing

Verb

outweigh (third-person singular simple present outweighs, present participle outweighing, simple past and past participle outweighed)

1. (transitive) To exceed in weight or mass.
   • The King your brother is now hard at hand,
     Meete with the foole, and rid your royall ſhoulders
     Of ſuch a burden, as outweighs the ſands
     And all the craggie rockes of Caſpea.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
2. (transitive) To exceed in importance or value.
   • The advantage […] was so great that it would have taken a lot of failures to outweigh it.1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC

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   override