overbalance

present singular third person overbalances · participle present overbalancing · participle past overbalanced · past overbalanced

1. To be more important than; to outweigh.First known use 16th c.

   I thought of giving up this club, which was expensive and of no service to me, and the amusement overbalanced by the late hours.

   1793, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 225

2. transitiveTo cause an imbalance in (something) by means of excess weight or numbers.First known use 17th c.
3. transitiveTo throw (someone or something) off balance; to cause to capsize.First known use 19th c.
4. intransitiveTo lose one's balance; to fall over.First known use 19th c.

plural overbalances

1. Excess of weight or value; something more than an equivalent.

   an overbalance of exports

   1 more example

   […] if there is in man's nature a tendency to guilt and ill desert in a vast overbalance to virtue and merit […]

   a. 1758, Jonathan Edwards, Original Sin