overbalance
IPA: ˈoʊvɝbˈæɫʌns
noun
- Excess of weight or value; something more than an equivalent.
verb
- To be more important than; to outweigh.
- (transitive) To cause an imbalance in (something) by means of excess weight or numbers.
- (transitive) To throw (someone or something) off balance; to cause to capsize.
- (intransitive) To lose one's balance; to fall over.
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Examples of "overbalance" in Sentences
- In a balancing test, the thumb on the scales can overbalance anything.
- Aaron's fury, in fact, is so bristling and alive that it threatens to overbalance the novel.
- Leclère kicked out with one foot, but the rope bit into his neck and checked so abruptly as nearly to overbalance him.
- 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.
- 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.
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