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overbalanced

overbalanced is the simple past and past participle of overbalance.

Meaning of overbalance

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.

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Questions about overbalanced

What is overbalanced the simple past and past participle of?
Overbalanced is the simple past and past participle of overbalance.

Words near overbalanced in the dictionary

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

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