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Counterweigh

//kaʊntəˈweɪ// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To act as counterbalance (against something). intransitive
  2. 2
    To counterbalance; to balance out. transitive

    "Yet Francis's favour could not counterweigh the disastrous flaw in European Christian mission in Africa, its association with the Portuguese slave trade."

Etymology

From counter- + weigh, under the influence Anglo-Norman contrepeser (“to counterpoise”).

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