Meaning

2 senses

  1. (intransitive)To act as counterbalance (against something).

  2. (transitive)To counterbalance; to balance out.

Origin

From counter- + weigh, under the influence Anglo-Norman contrepeser (“to counterpoise”).

From counter- + weigh, under the influence Anglo-Norman contrepeser (“to counterpoise”).

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Forms

counterweighs, counterweighing, counterweighed, counterweighed
Base formcounterweigh · to counterweigh
3rd person singularcounterweighs
Present participlecounterweighing
Past simplecounterweighed
Past participlecounterweighed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycounterweigh
he, she, itcounterweighs

Past simpleLesson

all personscounterweighed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave counterweighed
he, she, ithas counterweighed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill counterweigh

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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