overbalance

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Verb

overbalance (overbalances, present participle overbalancing; past and past participle overbalanced)

1. (transitive) To throw (someone or something) off balance.
2. (intransitive) To lose one's balance.
3. (intransitive) To have an excess weight.
4. (intransitive) To overcompensate.
5. (transitive) To exceed equality with; to outweigh.

Noun

overbalance (plural overbalances)

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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