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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To act against with equal force; counteract.
  2. v. To compensate for; offset.
  3. v. To act against an often detrimental influence or power.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To act against or antagonize with equal force or power; act or avail with equivalent effect against; counteract.
  2. Hence To be or furnish an equivalent of or a compensation for; make good; offset.
  3. n. Counterbalancing power or weight sufficient to obviate or counteract any effect; equal efficacy or value; compensation; requital.

Wiktionary

  1. v. obsolete To have the same value as.
  2. v. To counteract, counterbalance or neutralize.
  3. v. To compensate for.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate.
  2. n. obsolete Power or value sufficient to obviate any effect; equal weight, strength, or value; equivalent; compensation; requital.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions
  2. v. compensate for or counterbalance

Etymologies

  1. From Anglo-Norman countrevaloir ( = Old French contrevaloir), from Latin contrā valēre ("to be worth against"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English countrevaillen, from Old French contrevaloir, contrevail- : contre-, counter- + valoir, to be worth (from Latin valēre, to be strong; see wal- in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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