Definitions for preponderate

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preponderate pre·pon·der·ate

Spelling: [pri-pon-duh-reyt]

IPA: /prɪˈpɒn dəˌreɪt/

Preponderate is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 726 anagrams from letters in preponderate (adeeenopprrt).

Definitions for preponderate

verb (used without object)

1. to exceed something else in weight; be the heavier.
2. to incline downward or descend, as one scale or end of a balance, because of greater weight; be weighed down.
3. to be superior in power, force, influence, number, amount, etc.; predominate:

Origin of preponderate

1615-25; Latin praeponderātus, past participle of praeponderāre to outweigh. See pre-, ponder, Examples for preponderate

Yes, I feel that it will come some time—a relationship in which the human will preponderate over the animal tie.

He is only doubtful as to the extent to which the one doctrine may preponderate over the other.

So greatly does the influence of the Will preponderate that of the Intelligence.

And even if his money be yet to seek, still more shall it preponderate.

The Jews preponderate everywhere, apparently poor and depressed.

Though none of them can really exist, in its Christian quality, without the others, any of them may preponderate at a given time.

But still they do preponderate; and therefore the rank of the animals is humble.

Overbold, audacious; overhang, impend; overweigh, preponderate.

If the members of it are to revert to a dependence on the democratic choice, the democratic scale will preponderate.

The reasons which induce me nevertheless to decline, under existing circumstances, preponderate.