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Webster 1913 Edition
Outweigh
Out-weigh′
,Verb.
T.
To exceed in weight or value.
Webster 1828 Edition
Outweigh
OUTWEIGH
,Verb.
T.
1.
To exceed in weight.2.
To exceed in value, influence or importance.One self-approving hour whole years outweighs of stupid starers and of loud huzzas.
Definition 2024
outweigh
outweigh
English
Verb
outweigh (third-person singular simple present outweighs, present participle outweighing, simple past and past participle outweighed)
- To exceed in weight or mass.
- To exceed in importance or value.
- 1945 May, George Orwell, chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
- The advantage […] was so great that it would have taken a lot of failures to outweigh it.
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Translations
to exceed in weight or mass
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to exceed in importance or value
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