outweigh

present singular third person outweighs · participle present outweighing · participle past outweighed · past outweighed

1. transitiveTo exceed in weight or mass.

   The King your brother is now hard at hand, Meete with the foole, and rid your royall ſhoulders Of ſuch a burden, as outweighs the ſands And all the craggie rockes of Caſpea.

   c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii

2. transitiveTo exceed in importance or value.

   Flores said the images’ negative impact outweighs their historical and artistic value.

   2019 May 20, Walter Thompson, “A school's mural removal: should kids be shielded from brutal US history?”, in The Guardian

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   The advantage […] was so great that it would have taken a lot of failures to outweigh it.

   1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC

   The trials have revealed that the advantage of extra seating capacity is more than outweighed by slower station working, as the double-deck train affords one door for 22 seats, compared with 10 or 12 in ordinary compartment stock.

   1951 January, “Notes and News: Double-Deck Train Trials Results”, in Railway Magazine, page 66

   A few trains, mostly at peak periods, will still terminate at Barnsley because the convenience to workpeople of their current times outweighs the advantages of through working.

   1960 April, “Talking of trains: The new link at Barnsley”, in Trains Illustrated, page 197

   Synonyms: override