Dictionary Entry
preponderate
preponderate is a 12-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
12 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 20 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance.
- 2transitive verb
To overpower by stronger or moral power.
- 3transitive verb
To cause to prefer; to incline; to decide.
- 4intransitive verb
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.
- 5verb
weigh more heavily
"these considerations outweigh our wishes"
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