outweigh

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ weigh.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌaʊtˈweɪ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -eɪ

Verb

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

(transitive) To exceed in weight or mass.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] 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.
(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^[1]:
  Flores said the images’ negative impact outweighs their historical and artistic value.

Translations

to exceed in weight or mass

Arabic: ثَقَلَ (ar) (ṯaqala)
Bulgarian: тежа повече от (teža poveče ot)
German: überwiegen (de)
Italian: eccedere (it)
Romanian: a cântări mai greu decât

to exceed in importance or value

Bulgarian: имам по-голямо значение (imam po-goljamo značenie)
German: überragen (de)
Italian: superare (it)
Japanese: 上回る (ja) (uwamawaru)
Romanian: a excede în valoare
Spanish: suprapesar, extrapesar, superar (es), exceder (es), ultrapesar

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Czech: ^{(please verify)} převážit (cs)
Dutch: ^{(please verify)} zwaarder wegen
German: ^{(please verify)} überwiegen (de), übertreffen (de), übersteigen (de)
Swedish: ^{(please verify)} överväga (sv)

Anagrams

weigh out