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outweight

outweight verb: to outweigh.

Verb

outweight (third-person singular simple present outweights, present participle outweighting, simple past and past participle outweighted)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To outweigh.
    • "To know that I am a truly honest man, and that the King and you must think so, shall outweight the sense of all this scurrility in my mind.
    • "If you think you can outweight this opinion in other people by what His Majesty may at the same time be pleased to do with regard to my brother and Lord Digby and myself in point of rank, I shall be glad if you do it and it succeeds; […]1875, Edmond George Petty-Fitzmaurice Baron Fitzmaurice, Life of William, Earl of Shelburne (page 214)

Forms of outweight

third-person singular presentoutweights
present participleoutweighting
past participleoutweighted
pastoutweighted

Origin of outweight

out- + weight

Questions about outweight

What does outweight mean?
Outweight means to outweigh.
What part of speech is outweight?
Outweight is a verb.
What is the past tense of outweight?
The past tense of outweight is outweighted.

Words near outweight in the dictionary

  1. outweeps
  2. outweigh
  3. outweighed
  4. outweighing
  5. outweighs
  6. outweight
  7. outweird
  8. outweirded
  9. outweirding
  10. outweirds
  11. outwell

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