Oppress

Usage examples of overweigh.

Mating or not, the ancient codes of command overweigh the more modern ones of connection: I cannot, in the new position that I have assumed, show any softness.

It could not be denied that a state of abundant accommodation was better than the contrary, but this consideration, though in the most rational estimate, of some weight, she was not so depraved and effeminate as to allow to overweigh the opposite evils.

They too may be contending for the principle of the right of organization and control over their own economic destinies, so that they may be willing to suffer loss for a longer period than they would if they stood to gain only the immediate monetary advantages, but when immediate costs more than overweigh ultimate psychological advantages, they too will be willing to capitulate.

Constance had gone a long way in poisoning their attitudes toward her, and yet her reputation, it seemed, somewhat overweighed even the words of their mother.

Daily she watched what she was doing to herself and was appalled, but inertia overweighed everything and nothing changed.

There was a rattle at the door as the great lock was opened, then the slow creak of steel hinges overweighed by the mass of their burden.

His reluctance to look ignorant overweighed his slight worry that the others might actually have overlooked that matter.

England, overweighed her objections, but her new reflections led her to form new determinations with regard to this part of her property.

His too-wide shoulders, those dangling, over-long arms overweighed the rest of him.

His love had preserved his identity, saved him from shrinking into the mere nameless unit which the social enthusiast is in danger of becoming unless the humanitarian passion is balanced, and a little overweighed, by a merely human one.

Constance had gone a long way in poisoning their attitudes toward her, and yet her reputation, it seemed, somewhat overweighed even the words of their mother.

Daily she watched what she was doing to herself and was appalled, but inertia overweighed everything and nothing changed.

There was a rattle at the door as the great lock was opened, then the slow creak of steel hinges overweighed by the mass of their burden.

But now here, now there, the water was overweighing leaf after leaf and tumbling down into the depths, frequently into other leaves.