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counterweigh en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /kaʊntəˈweɪ/ (UK)

Etymology

From counter- + weigh, under the influence Anglo-Norman contrepeser (“to counterpoise”).

Meanings

  1. (intransitive) To act as counterbalance (against something).
  2. (transitive) To counterbalance; to balance out.
    • Yet Francis's favour could not counterweigh the disastrous flaw in European Christian mission in Africa, its association with the Portuguese slave trade. 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 709:

Forms

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counterweighed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
counterweighed Tense=Past lexicographic
counterweighs Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
counterweighing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic