Word Meanings - OVERBALANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To exceed equality with; to outweigh. Locke. 2. To cause to lose balance or equilibrium.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OVERBALANCE)

• Preponderate
• Predominate
• prevail
• overbalance
• outweigh
• outbalance
• Upset
• Overturn
• overthrow
• capsize
• subvert
• disestablish

Related words: (words related to OVERBALANCE)

• OVERTHROW
  1. To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down. His wife overthrew the table. Jer. Taylor. 2. To cause to fall or to fail; to subvert; to defeat; to make a ruin of; to destroy. When the walls of Thebes he overthrew. Dryden. that seeks
• UPSETTING
  Conceited; assuming; as, an upsetting fellow. Jamieson.
• OVERTURN
  1. To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building. 2. To subvert; to destroy; to overthrow. 3. To overpower; to conquer. Milton. Syn. -- To demolish; overthrow. See Demolish.
• PREPONDERATE
  prae before + ponderare to weigh, fr., pondus, ponderis, a weight. 1. To outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance. An inconsiderable weight, by distance from the center of the balance, will preponderate greater
• CAPSIZE
  To upset or overturn, as a vessel or other body. But what if carrying sail capsize the boat Byron.
• DISESTABLISHMENT
  1. The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by
• PREVAILINGLY
  So as to prevail.
• UPSETTING THERMOMETER
  A thermometer by merely inverting which the temperature may be registered. The column of mercury is broken and, as it remains until the instrument is reset, the reading may be made at leisure.
• OVERBALANCE
  1. To exceed equality with; to outweigh. Locke. 2. To cause to lose balance or equilibrium.
• PREDOMINATE
  To be superior in number, strength, influence, or authority; to have controlling power or influence; to prevail; to rule; to have the mastery; as, love predominated in her heart. rays may predominate over the rest. Sir. I. Newton.
• SUBVERTEBRAL
  Situated beneath, or on the ventral side of, the vertebral column; situated beneath, or inside of, the endoskeleton; hypaxial; hyposkeletal.
• OUTBALANCE
  To outweight; to exceed in weight or effect. Let dull Ajax bear away my right When all his days outbalance this one night. Dryden.
• PREVAIL
  1. To overcome; to gain the victory or superiority; to gain the advantage; to have the upper hand, or the mastery; to succeed; -- sometimes with over or against. When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and when he let down his hand, Amalek
• SUBVERTANT
  Reserved.
• OVERTURNABLE
  Capable of being, or liable to be, overturned or subverted.
• OVERTURNER
  One who overturns. South.
• OUTWEIGH
  To exceed in weight or value.
• SUBVERTER
  One who, or that which, subverts; an overthrower. Sir T. More.
• SUBVERTIBLE
  That may be subverted.
• DISESTABLISH
  To unsettle; to break up ; to deprive, as a church, of its connection with the state. M. Arnold.