preponderates

Verb

preponderate (third-person singular simple present preponderates, present participle preponderating, simple past and past participle preponderated)

1. (transitive) To outweigh; to be heavier than; to exceed in weight.
   • an inconsiderable weight by virtue of its distance from the Centre of the Ballance, will preponderate much greater magnitudes1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica

   Synonyms:

   overbalance

2. (transitive) To overpower by stronger or moral power.
   • That is the preponderating consideration to which everything else has to yield.1898, William Graham Sumner, “The Conquest of the United States by Spain”, in War and Other Essays, Yale, page 359
3. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to prefer; to incline; to decide.
   • The desire to spare Christian blood preponderates him for peace.1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, and the Profane State
4. (intransitive) To exceed in weight or influence; hence, to predominate.
   • Anxiety preponderated over hope; and it was scarcely possible for Evelyn to encounter a danger not previously conjured up by the alarmed fancy of his mistress.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 22