outweigh

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English

Etymology

From out- +‎ weigh.

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outweigh (third-person singular simple present outweighs, present participle outweighing, simple past and past participle outweighed)

  1. (transitive) To exceed in weight or mass.
    • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , 2nd edition, part 1, London: Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii:
      The King your brother is now hard at hand,
      Meete with the foole, and rid your royall ſhoulders
      Of ſuch a burden, as outweighs the ſands
      And all the craggie rockes of Caſpea.
  2. (transitive) To exceed in importance or value.
    • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm , London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
      The advantage [] was so great that it would have taken a lot of failures to outweigh it.
    • 1951 January, “Notes and News: Double-Deck Train Trials Results”, in Railway Magazine, page 66:
      The trials have revealed that the advantage of extra seating capacity is more than outweighed by slower station working, as the double-deck train affords one door for 22 seats, compared with 10 or 12 in ordinary compartment stock.
    • 1960 April, “Talking of trains: The new link at Barnsley”, in Trains Illustrated, page 197:
      A few trains, mostly at peak periods, will still terminate at Barnsley because the convenience to workpeople of their current times outweighs the advantages of through working.
    • 2019 May 20, Walter Thompson, “A school's mural removal: should kids be shielded from brutal US history?”, in The Guardian:
      Flores said the images’ negative impact outweighs their historical and artistic value.

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