Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive & transitive verb To counterbalance or cause to counterbalance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To weigh against; counterbalance; counterpoise.
- To have a counterbalancing effect.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To weigh against; to counterbalance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To act as
counterbalance (against something). - verb transitive To
counterbalance ; to balance out.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From counter- + weigh, under the influence Anglo-Norman contrepeser ("to counterpoise").
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