Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to overpoise
Participle: overpoised
Gerund: overpoising
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | overpoise |
| you | overpoise |
| he;she;it | overpoises |
| we | overpoise |
| you | overpoise |
| they | overpoise |
Perfect
| I | have overpoised |
| you | have overpoised |
| he;she;it | has overpoised |
| we | have overpoised |
| you | have overpoised |
| they | have overpoised |
Past
| I | overpoised |
| you | overpoised |
| he;she;it | overpoised |
| we | overpoised |
| you | overpoised |
| they | overpoised |
Pluperfect
| I | had overpoised |
| you | had overpoised |
| he;she;it | had overpoised |
| we | had overpoised |
| you | had overpoised |
| they | had overpoised |
Future
| I | will overpoise |
| you | will overpoise |
| he;she;it | will overpoise |
| we | will overpoise |
| you | will overpoise |
| they | will overpoise |
Future Perfect
| I | will have overpoised |
| you | will have overpoised |
| he;she;it | will have overpoised |
| we | will have overpoised |
| you | will have overpoised |
| they | will have overpoised |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | overpoise |
| you | overpoise |
| he;she;it | overpoise |
| we | overpoise |
| you | overpoise |
| they | overpoise |
Perfect
| I | have overpoised |
| you | have overpoised |
| he;she;it | have overpoised |
| we | have overpoised |
| you | have overpoised |
| they | have overpoised |
Imperfect
| I | overpoised |
| you | overpoised |
| he;she;it | overpoised |
| we | overpoised |
| you | overpoised |
| they | overpoised |
Pluperfect
| I | had overpoised |
| you | had overpoised |
| he;she;it | had overpoised |
| we | had overpoised |
| you | had overpoised |
| they | had overpoised |
Conditional
Present
| I | would overpoise |
| you | would overpoise |
| he;she;it | would overpoise |
| we | would overpoise |
| you | would overpoise |
| they | would overpoise |
Perfect
| I | would have overpoised |
| you | would have overpoised |
| he;she;it | would have overpoised |
| we | would have overpoised |
| you | would have overpoised |
| they | would have overpoised |
Imperative
| you | overpoise |
| we | Let's overpoise |
| you | overpoise |
Verbs conjugated like 'overpoise'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'overpoise'
overnoise,
overdose,
overpolish,
overpost,
overpraise,
overprice,
overprime,
overprize,
overpromise,
overpulse,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Antonyms
- to bring to an equipoise; to bring into equilibrium
- disequilibrate, fall over, lose one's balance, misbalance, overbalance, balance, unbalance
- to compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction
- overcome, overpower, surmount, offset
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From over- + poise.
Sample Sentences
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1587, Raphael Holinshed et al., Holinshed's Chronicles, London: John Harrison et al., Volume 2, “A Treatise conteining a plaine and perfect description of Ireland,” p. 36,
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But sith it pleased your maiestie, with so indifferent balance to ponder both our tales, I am throughlie persuaded, that my loiall innocencie shall be able, to ouerpoise his forged treacherie.
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To render a thing fit for rational belief, there is no more requir’d but that the motives for it do over-poise those against it […] [1678, Richard Allestree, The Lively Oracles Given to Us, Oxford, Section 2, p. 24:]
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1791, William Cowper (translator), The Iliad, Book 1, lines 710-711, in The Works of William Cowper, London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1837, Volume 11, p. 26,
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[…] thus we speed
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Ever, when evil overpoises good.
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Tis time [f]or me to stirre when such young boyes,
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Shal haue their weake neckes ouer poisd with crownes [1598, George Chapman, The Blind Beggar of Alexandria, London: William Jones:]
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1658, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: N. Ekins, 3rd edition, Book 4, Chapter 6, p. 168,
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Whether cripples and mutilated persons, who have lost the greatest part of their thighs, will not sink but float, their lungs being abler to waft up their bodies, which are in others overpoised by the hinder legs, we have not made experiment.
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[…] the Stone in my Fathers Body was so immense, that I’ve wonder’d it did not bunch up behind, and make him have a Hump-back, or at least overpoise him in walking, and drag him backward with its incredible weight. [1691, John Dunton, chapter 6, in A Voyage Round the World, London: Richard Newcome, page 122:]
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[…] Harry, perceiving his Instructor a little overpoised, suddenly gave him an inside Foot, and a Push at the same Instant toward the Part to which he inclined. [1770, Henry Brooke, The Fool of Quality, volume 5, Dublin, page 146:]