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overbalance

/ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈbæləns/

overbalance verb: to be more important than; to outweigh.

Verb

overbalance (third-person singular simple present overbalances, present participle overbalancing, simple past and past participle overbalanced)

  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.1793, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 225
  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

IPA/ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌbæləns/

overbalance (plural overbalances)

  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 […]a. 1758, Jonathan Edwards, Original Sin

overbalance meaning in Malayalam

overbalance in Malayalam

തൂക്കത്തിൽ കൂടുക, സമനില നഷ്ടപ്പെടുക

Forms of overbalance

Verb
third-person singular presentoverbalances
present participleoverbalancing
past participleoverbalanced
pastoverbalanced
Noun
pluraloverbalances

Origin of overbalance

From over- + balance.

Questions about overbalance

What does overbalance mean?
Overbalance means to be more important than; to outweigh.
What is overbalance in Malayalam?
Overbalance in Malayalam is തൂക്കത്തിൽ കൂടുക, സമനില നഷ്ടപ്പെടുക. See Overbalance meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is overbalance?
Overbalance can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce overbalance?
Overbalance is pronounced /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈbæləns/.
What is the past tense of overbalance?
The past tense of overbalance is overbalanced.

Words near overbalance in the dictionary

  1. overbaits
  2. overbake
  3. overbaked
  4. overbakes
  5. overbaking
  6. overbalance
  7. overbalanced
  8. overbalances
  9. overbalancing
  10. overbalancings
  11. overballast

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