overbalance
/əʊvəˈbal(ə)ns
/verb chiefly British
1Fall or cause to fall over from loss of balance: [no object]: he overbalanced and fell against the wall [with object]: their combined weight had overbalanced them...
- They figured the weight of the stuff overbalanced them and they fell off of places.
- Her sudden bolt as he had been about to catch her had caused Father to overbalance and fall in the dirt.
- He could vault over a much smaller opponent without causing his victim to overbalance and fall.
Synonyms
fall over, topple over, lose one's balance, lose one's footing, tip over, keel over, capsize, overturn, turn turtle;
push over, upend, upset;
Scottish & Northern Irish cowp
1.1 [with object] Outweigh: the days of unhappiness were far overbalanced by days of wild expressions of love...
- Sum-ranking fails to give sufficient salience to the worth of each person: it in effect permits one person's large misery to be overbalanced by small benefits to a large number of others.
noun archaic
An excess of weight, value, or amount: an overbalance of propriety
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- non-baryonic
- non-basic
- non-being
- non-belief
- non-believer
- non-believing
- non-belligerence
- non-belligerent
- non-binary
- non-biodegradable
- non-biological
- non-biologically
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