• (British) IPA: /ˈkaʊntəveɪl/

countervail (countervails, present participle countervailing; past and past participle countervailed)

1. (obsolete) To have the same value as.
2. To counteract, counterbalance or neutralize.
3. To compensate for.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 38, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book I, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:

     I am one of those who thinke their fruit can no way countervaile this losse.

   • L'Estrange

     Upon balancing the account, the profit at last will hardly countervail the inconveniences that go along with it.

   • 1988, Richard Ellmann, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, 2nd ed. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1988), p. 539.

     If [Wilfred] Owen preserves his youthful romanticism, or at least a shell of it, he uses it to countervail the horrifying scenes he describes, just as he poses his own youth against the age-old spectacle of men dying in pain and futility.

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