PREPONDERATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does preponderate mean? 

• PREPONDERATE (verb)
  The verb PREPONDERATE has 1 sense:

1. weigh more heavily

  Familiarity information: PREPONDERATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREPONDERATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they preponderate    ... he / she / it preponderates   
Past simple: preponderated   
Past participle: preponderated   
-ing form: preponderating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Weigh more heavily

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

outbalance; outweigh; overbalance; preponderate

Context example:

these considerations outweigh our wishes

Hypernyms (to "preponderate" is one way to...):

dominate; predominate; prevail; reign; rule (be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

preponderance (exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight)

preponderance (a superiority in numbers or amount)

preponderance (superiority in power or influence)

preponderant (having superior power and influence)

 Context examples 

It was only in his presence that Catherine felt the smallest fatigue from her journey; and even then, even in moments of languor or restraint, a sense of general happiness preponderated, and she could think of her friends in Bath without one wish of being with them.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)