Preponderate

v. t.	1.	To outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance. [imp. & p. p. Preponderated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Preponderating.] An inconsiderable weight, by distance from the center of the balance, will preponderate greater magnitudes. - Glanvill.
	2.	To overpower by stronger or moral power.
	3.	To cause to prefer; to incline; to decide. The desire to spare Christian blood preponderates him for peace. - Fuller.
v. i.	1.	To exceed in weight; hence, to incline or descend, as the scale of a balance; figuratively, to exceed in influence, power, etc.; hence; to incline to one side; as, the affirmative side preponderated. That is no just balance in which the heaviest side will not preponderate. - Bp. Wilkins.

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preponderate - weigh more heavily Synonyms: outbalance, overbalance, outweigh

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