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Meanings of overbalance in English

Weigh more heavily.

Usage of overbalance in English
1
To some these may seem to overbalance that to which I object.
Laddie: A True Blue Story
2
You'll have to inch your way along, being very careful not to overbalance.
Night Shift
3
Louis began to overbalance in his effort to get away from that hand.
Pet Sematary
4
But what degree of intensity will overbalance what period of duration?
A Handbook of Ethical Theory
5
Yet to overbalance this disregard of beautiful form was his strong predilection for finery.
Rembrandt / A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of t...
6
Your home teaching must overbalance all that he hears outside.
The value of a praying mother
7
Lysandra thrust her hips upwards, causing her furious assailant to overbalance and topple forwards.
Gladiatrix
8
The prospect of meeting with countrymen seemed to overbalance the toils of the longer march.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
9
She swayed back, so far as to almost overbalance.
Empire in black and gold
10
This trouble and delay may overbalance the supposed advantages.
A Book for All Readers / An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Pres...
11
Who can accurately determine the best means for bringing the good to overbalance the evil?
Paris as It Was and as It Is / A Sketch Of The French Capital, I...
12
A mosaic is a static collection, whereas a man has character struggles, balance and overbalance.
The Foundations of Personality
13
Should Achæa overbalance, we may want to see Egypt.
Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero
14
In the dark he could not tell, and dared not stand up lest he overbalance.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
15
Adama turned just in time to see a large, caged rack of bombs overbalance and topple.
Battlestar Galactica
16
He felt that the youth of Apollo was enough to overbalance the strength of his enemy.
The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island
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