overbalance

UK /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈbæləns/ US /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈbæləns/
verb 4noun 1

Definitions

verb

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.

2

To cause an imbalance in (something) by means of excess weight or numbers.

3

To throw (someone or something) off balance; to cause to capsize.

4

To lose one's balance; to fall over.

noun

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 […]

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