counterweigh

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /kaʊntəˈweɪ/

Verb

counterweigh (counterweighs, present participle counterweighing; past and past participle counterweighed)

1. (intransitive) To act as counterbalance (against something).
2. (transitive) To counterbalance; to balance out.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 709:

     Yet Francis's favour could not counterweigh the disastrous flaw in European Christian mission in Africa, its association with the Portuguese slave trade.

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