overbalancing
overbalancing is the present participle and gerund of overbalance.
Meaning of overbalance
Verb
overbalance (third-person singular simple present overbalances, present participle overbalancing, simple past and past participle overbalanced)
- 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
- To cause an imbalance in (something) by means of excess weight or numbers.
- To throw (someone or something) off balance; to cause to capsize.
- To lose one's balance; to fall over.
Noun
overbalancing (plural overbalancings)
- An instance of something being overbalanced.
- We could not afford the false steps, nor the little slips, nor the overbalancings so unimportant on level ground. Progress was slow and cautious.1919, Steward Edward White, The Killer
Forms of overbalancing
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Questions about overbalancing
- What does overbalancing mean?
- Overbalancing means an instance of something being overbalanced.
- What is overbalancing the present participle and gerund of?
- Overbalancing is the present participle and gerund of overbalance.
- What part of speech is overbalancing?
- Overbalancing is a noun.
- What is the plural of overbalancing?
- The plural of overbalancing is overbalancings.
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