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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overbalance .
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Examples
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Their meagre physical experiences, plus their meagre intellectual experiences, made a negative sum so vast that it overbalanced their wholesome morality and healthful sports.
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The destroyer overbalanced and crashed into the ditch.
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The destroyer overbalanced and crashed into the ditch.
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He attempted to hold the two men apart, but pressing too hard against the truculent individual, overbalanced him and threw him to the floor.
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 Initially designed to create an all-star JLA, it quickly became overbalanced, with 14 active members (one of whom, Geo-Force, was never seen to join the team and never seen to quit it, and still somehow ranks as an active member.)
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She overbalanced hard into the rim of a fountain with a thump that echoed dully, and then lurched upright again, landing a wild punch on his shoulder.
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The destroyer overbalanced and crashed into the ditch.
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The destroyer overbalanced and crashed into the ditch.
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Dana was the thorough-going type of man, not overbalanced and erratic, without quirk or quibble of temperament.
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Heart-high, I say, my rapier entered Pasquini's side on the right, but it did not emerge, on the left, for, well-nigh through him, it met a rib (oh, man-killing is butcher's work!) with such a will that the forcing overbalanced him, so that he fell part backward and part sidewise to the ground.
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