Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To provide with more weight or quantity in one area than another.
- intransitive verb To have greater weight or importance than.
- intransitive verb To lose one's balance.
- noun Archaic An excess in weight or quantity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To exceed in weight, value, or importance; surpass; preponderate over.
- To destroy the balance or equilibrium of; cause to lose balance: often with a reflexive pronoun: as, to
overbalance ourselves and fall. - noun Excess of weight or value; something which is more than an equivalent; a counterbalance: as, an overbalance of exports.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To exceed equality with; to outweigh.
- transitive verb To cause to lose balance or equilibrium.
- noun Excess of weight or value; something more than an equivalent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To thrown (someone or something) off
balance - verb intransitive To lose one's balance
- verb intransitive To have an excess
weight - verb intransitive To
overcompensate - noun Excess of weight or value; something more than an equivalent.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cause to be off balance
- verb weigh more heavily
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Examples
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Players would turn the wheel, which dunked the head of the strapees one at a time, under water, where they had to get mouthfuls of water to then spit into a bowl until there was enough water to overbalance the bowl, releasing a ball the rest of the team would use to break tile targets.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Neither Tea Nor Sympathy. Tallulah Morehead 2010
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Players would turn the wheel, which dunked the head of the strapees one at a time, under water, where they had to get mouthfuls of water to then spit into a bowl until there was enough water to overbalance the bowl, releasing a ball the rest of the team would use to break tile targets.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Neither Tea Nor Sympathy. Tallulah Morehead 2010
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Players would turn the wheel, which dunked the head of the strapees one at a time, under water, where they had to get mouthfuls of water to then spit into a bowl until there was enough water to overbalance the bowl, releasing a ball the rest of the team would use to break tile targets.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Neither Tea Nor Sympathy. Tallulah Morehead 2010
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Players would turn the wheel, which dunked the head of the strapees one at a time, under water, where they had to get mouthfuls of water to then spit into a bowl until there was enough water to overbalance the bowl, releasing a ball the rest of the team would use to break tile targets.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Neither Tea Nor Sympathy. Tallulah Morehead 2010
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Players would turn the wheel, which dunked the head of the strapees one at a time, under water, where they had to get mouthfuls of water to then spit into a bowl until there was enough water to overbalance the bowl, releasing a ball the rest of the team would use to break tile targets.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Neither Tea Nor Sympathy. Tallulah Morehead 2010
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Aaron's fury, in fact, is so bristling and alive that it threatens to overbalance the novel.
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In a balancing test, the thumb on the scales can overbalance anything.
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Leclère kicked out with one foot, but the rope bit into his neck and checked so abruptly as nearly to overbalance him.
BÂTARD 2010
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When it appears to the untutored eye that any movement of the trailer would cause the whole slippery cargo to overbalance, it is re-hitched to the tractor which, grumbling and snorting, makes its laborious way back up the slope from the beach.
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Players would turn the wheel, which dunked the head of the strapees one at a time, under water, where they had to get mouthfuls of water to then spit into a bowl until there was enough water to overbalance the bowl, releasing a ball the rest of the team would use to break tile targets.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Neither Tea Nor Sympathy. Tallulah Morehead 2010
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