overbalance
Collocations
3ADJ.
vast
OVERBALANCE + NOUN
virtue
PREP.
in
Definitions
verb
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.
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
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 […]
Thesaurus
Synonyms
verb — weigh more heavily
- preponderate
- outweigh
- outbalance
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
3I thought of giving up this club, which was expensive and of no service to me, and the amusement overbalanced by the late hours.
Wiktionaryan overbalance of exports
Wiktionary[…] if there is in man's nature a tendency to guilt and ill desert in a vast overbalance to virtue and merit […]
Wiktionary