outbalances
Tips the scale
Outbalances means to exceed in weight, importance, or influence—to tip the scales against something else.
The benefits may outbalance the risks, or one factor outbalances all others combined: Her experience outbalances his youth and enthusiasm.
A slightly formal alternative to outweighs.
Exceeds in importance
- surpassesExceeds in quality
- exceedsGoes past a boundary
- overcomesDefeats or masters
- overridesCancels using superior authority
trumps · eclipses · outdoes · outstrips · prevails · transcends · overshadows · predominates
Defeats through greater strength
- dominatesExerts supreme control
- overwhelmsConquers by superior force
- subjugatesBrings under complete control
- overtakesPasses while moving faster
conquers · subdues · overbears · supersedes · supplants · dwarfs · marginalizes · diminishes
Loses equilibrium, falls
destabilizes · unbalances · throws off · skews · displaces · shifts · upsets · capsizes
outweighs
Exceeds in importance
overrides · trumps · eclipses · outdoes · outstrips · prevails · transcends · overshadows · predominates · tips the scales
overpowers
Defeats through greater strength
- dominatesExerts supreme control
- overwhelmsConquers by superior force
- subjugatesBrings under complete control
overtakes · conquers · subdues · overbears · supersedes · supplants · dwarfs · marginalizes · diminishes · minimizes
overbalances
Loses equilibrium, falls
upends · destabilizes · unbalances · throws off · skews · displaces · shifts · upsets · capsizes · overturns
outbalancesbalances
Keeps from toppling
equals · matches · counterbalances · equilibrates · offsets