Overbalance
[əʊvə'bæl(ə)ns] or [,ovɚ'bæləns]
Definition
(verb.) cause to be off balance; 'It is not desirable to overbalance the budget'.
Inputed by Leila--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To exceed equality with; to outweigh.
(v. t.) To cause to lose balance or equilibrium.
(n.) Excess of weight or value; something more than an equivalent; as, an overbalance of exports.
Checker: Rhonda
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Outweigh, overpoise, overweigh.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See BALANCE]
Typed by Arlene
Definition
v.t. to exceed in weight value or importance: to cause to lose (one's) balance.—n. excess of weight or value.
Checked by Clifton
Examples
- Confined by the sea, they can scarcely increase in numbers, wealth, and strength, so as to overbalance England. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Convex glasses, by bending the rays and bringing them to a nearer focus, overbalance a short eyeball with its tendency to focus objects behind the retina. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Concave glasses, by separating the rays and making the focus more distant, overbalance a wide eyeball with its tendency to focus objects in front of the retina. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- There is a valve in the tank which is opened by stepping on a treadle in the car, and this action admits to the bucket just enough weight of water to overbalance the load on the car. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- If to the neutral solution an extra portion of base is added, so that there is an excess of base over acid, the neutralization is overbalanced and the red paper turns blue. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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