overweigh

verb /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈweɪ/

1. To exceed in weight, outweigh; to preponderate; to weigh down.

   archaic, transitive

   Shall ouerweigh his wearie witleſſe head, And fall like mellowed fruit, with ſhakes of death, In faire Perſea noble Tamburlain Shall be my Regent, and remaine as King:

   And when the princely Perſean Diadem,

Where it comes from

From Middle English overweȝen; equivalent to over- + weigh. First known attestation in the Ancrene Wisse ("luue ouerweið hit").

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry overweigh (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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