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Answer for the clue "Be more important than ", 8 letters:
outweigh

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Word definitions for outweigh in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To exceed in weight or mass. 2 To exceed in importance or value.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. be heavier than weigh more heavily [syn: preponderate , overbalance , outbalance ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outweigh \Out*weigh"\, v. t. To exceed in weight or value.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from out (adv.) + weigh (v.). Related: Outweighed ; outweighing .

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES sth outweighs the benefits (= something is more important than the benefits ) ▪ Make sure that the risks don’t outweigh the benefits. the advantages outweigh the disadvantages (= the advantages are more valuable ) ▪ ...

Usage examples of outweigh.

However, those potential side effects are greatly outweighed by the serious risk anthrax poses.

Restoration, but for a long time I refused to believe that his influence should have outweighed all the serious considerations opposed to such a perfect anomaly as appointing Fouche the Minister of a Bourbon.

But render the idea in this way, the blessedness offered to men in the revelation of grace made by Jesus outweighs the wretchedness brought upon them through the sin introduced by Adam, and the sense is satisfactory.

For just as Gustav Mahler might stand as an instance of musicianly temperament fatally outweighing musicianly intellect, so Arnold Schoenberg might stand as an example of the equally excessive outbalancing of sensibility by brain-stuff.

Yet you continue to overeat, indicating clearly that the physical sensation of ingestion outweighs the theoretical pleasure of improved appearance.

It was not that she was afraid of the woman though Ramonda was at least half a head taller and outweighed her by a good two stone.

The steward caught her plump elbow and, in spite of the fact that she outweighed him by a goodly margin, turned the termagant skillfully toward the stairs.

I would sweep away these triflers, but long thought shows me the task outweighs my resources.

This was one triumph that the consuls of the year could participate in, as the triumphator, whose imperium had to outweigh all others, was Dictator.

But such unpleasing sensations were outweighed by the great comfort of his position, the unanalysable, the almost mysterious properties of his reclining-chair, which he had applauded even on his first experience of it, and which reasserted themselves in the happiest way whenever he resorted to it anew.

It was she he thought of more than Dundas, she whose grief outweighed his own, and which tore still at the deep well of emotion within him, unhealed even now.

One of the last letters he received before departure was from his admiring friend Benjamin Rush, who in his usual flowing, assured hand wrote that though he hated to see Adams go, he had every confidence in him: I am aware that your abilities and firmness are much wanted at the Court of France, and after all that has been said of the advantages of dressing, powdering, and bowing well as necessary accomplishments for an ambassador, I maintain that knowledge and integrity with a common share of prudence will outweigh them all.

Beyond such important but necessarily impersonal concerns, I would venture to remind you that just as you lost a sworn man in Aiten, I lost a scholar in Geris, a man of much learning who might have aided us both against this threat, though of course, nothing outweighs the loss of both their lives.

I appealed to his gratitude to you for having saved me from Lodivarman and to his love for me, believing that these might outweigh his determination to wed me to Bharata Rahon, but I was mistaken.

Some foreign companies may have little or no trade with the United States, and in those cases the lure of smuggling with Iraq would greatly outweigh any potential risk of creating disfavor with the United States.