overbalance

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English

Etymology

over- +‎ balance

Verb

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  1. (transitive) To throw (someone or something) off balance.
  2. (intransitive) To lose one's balance.
  3. (intransitive) To have an excess weight.
  4. (intransitive) To overcompensate.
  5. (transitive) To exceed equality with; to outweigh.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of John Locke to this entry?)

Noun

overbalance (plural overbalances)

  1. Excess of weight or value; something more than an equivalent.
    an overbalance of exports
    • Jonathan Edwards
      […] if there is in man's nature a tendency to guilt and ill desert in a vast overbalance to virtue and merit […]
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