Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to counterpoise
Participle: counterpoised
Gerund: counterpoising
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | counterpoise |
| you | counterpoise |
| he;she;it | counterpoises |
| we | counterpoise |
| you | counterpoise |
| they | counterpoise |
Perfect
| I | have counterpoised |
| you | have counterpoised |
| he;she;it | has counterpoised |
| we | have counterpoised |
| you | have counterpoised |
| they | have counterpoised |
Past
| I | counterpoised |
| you | counterpoised |
| he;she;it | counterpoised |
| we | counterpoised |
| you | counterpoised |
| they | counterpoised |
Pluperfect
| I | had counterpoised |
| you | had counterpoised |
| he;she;it | had counterpoised |
| we | had counterpoised |
| you | had counterpoised |
| they | had counterpoised |
Future
| I | will counterpoise |
| you | will counterpoise |
| he;she;it | will counterpoise |
| we | will counterpoise |
| you | will counterpoise |
| they | will counterpoise |
Future Perfect
| I | will have counterpoised |
| you | will have counterpoised |
| he;she;it | will have counterpoised |
| we | will have counterpoised |
| you | will have counterpoised |
| they | will have counterpoised |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | counterpoise |
| you | counterpoise |
| he;she;it | counterpoise |
| we | counterpoise |
| you | counterpoise |
| they | counterpoise |
Perfect
| I | have counterpoised |
| you | have counterpoised |
| he;she;it | have counterpoised |
| we | have counterpoised |
| you | have counterpoised |
| they | have counterpoised |
Imperfect
| I | counterpoised |
| you | counterpoised |
| he;she;it | counterpoised |
| we | counterpoised |
| you | counterpoised |
| they | counterpoised |
Pluperfect
| I | had counterpoised |
| you | had counterpoised |
| he;she;it | had counterpoised |
| we | had counterpoised |
| you | had counterpoised |
| they | had counterpoised |
Conditional
Present
| I | would counterpoise |
| you | would counterpoise |
| he;she;it | would counterpoise |
| we | would counterpoise |
| you | would counterpoise |
| they | would counterpoise |
Perfect
| I | would have counterpoised |
| you | would have counterpoised |
| he;she;it | would have counterpoised |
| we | would have counterpoised |
| you | would have counterpoised |
| they | would have counterpoised |
Imperative
| you | counterpoise |
| we | Let's counterpoise |
| you | counterpoise |
Verbs conjugated like 'counterpoise'
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 'counterpoise'
counterpose,
counterionise,
counterpoint,
contemporise,
counterbore,
counterionize,
countermine,
countermove,
counterpropose,
counterprove,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Old French contrepois, contrepeser, later assimilated to poise.
Sample Sentences
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Weights, counterpoising one another. [1644, Kenelme [i.e., Kenelm] Digby, Two Treatises. In the One of which, the Nature of Bodies; in the Other, the Nature of Mans Soule; is Looked into: In Way of Discovery, of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules, Paris: […] Gilles Blaizot, →OCLC:]
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So many freeholders of English […]will be able to beard, and to counterpoise the rest. [1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:]