The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overbalance \O"ver*bal`ance\, n.
Excess of weight or value; something more than an equivalent;
as, an overbalance of exports.
--J. Edwards.
Overbalance \O`ver*bal"ance\, v. t.
To exceed equality with; to outweigh.
--Locke.To cause to lose balance or equilibrium.
Wiktionary
n. Excess of weight or value; something more than an equivalent. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To throw (someone or something) off balance. 2 (context intransitive English) To lose one's balance. 3 (context intransitive English) To have an excess weight. 4 (context intransitive English) To overcompensate. 5 (context transitive English) To exceed equality with; to outweigh.
WordNet
v. weigh more heavily [syn: preponderate, outweigh, outbalance]
out out of; "It is not desirable to overbalance the budget"
Usage examples of "overbalance".
But it must be considered that all the good gained by this through the gradation of alehouse-keeper, brewer, maltster, and farmer, is overbalanced by the evil caused to the man and his family by his getting drunk.
The mental ability to organize, arrange and acquire things overbalances, leading us into greed, miserliness, and manipulation of other people in order to acquire more than we need and to achieve our own selfish ends.
Suddenly, the leather thongs snapped, and with the jolt the carrying baskets, overbalanced by the long heavy spear shafts, tilted up.
But a low beach, possibly formed by the recent overturning of the berg, received the Titan, and with her keel cutting the ice like the steel runner of an iceboat, and her great weight resting on the starboard bilge, she rose out of the sea, higher and higher --- until the propellers in the stern were half exposed --- then, meeting an easy, spiral rise in the ice under her port bow, she heeled, overbalanced, and crashed down on her side, to starboard.
If one overbalances the other, there is only nonperformance and all-around frustration.
Almost overbalanced, in fact, still not used to the reflex speed of this new body, proprioception still a little off, moving through space faster than I thought I was.
Karon was startled into overbalancing when the assault commenced, and his massive flounderings caused his punt to roll over with a tremendous splash.
I am certain he will, relinquish, and, if he should not, they are vastly overbalanced by one of the most humane, tender, honest hearts that ever man was blest with.
It cracked under the impact, overbalanced and fell backwards, crashing to the ground.
The burning sled overbalanced and fell away, revealing a dark human figure.
Don so much that he did let me go, and I overbalanced and, yelling my head off, fell on my back into the water.
Her comment to this was cut off when they both slipped together and overbalanced in the snow.
He fell beneath the wheels, and that overbalanced the coach, and it rolled onto its side, while the horses continued to run.
Somewhere behind her a rat overbalanced an empty crate and it fell with a damp thud.
Faraday wailed, trying to twist out of his hands but overbalancing and falling to her knees in the mud.