Overbalancing

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    An instance of something being overbalanced.

    "We could not afford the false steps, nor the little slips, nor the overbalancings so unimportant on level ground. Progress was slow and cautious."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of overbalance form-of, gerund, participle, present

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"We could not afford the false steps, nor the little slips, nor the overbalancings so unimportant on level ground. Progress was slow and cautious."

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