outweigh

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To exceed in weight or mass. transitive
    — The King your brother is now hard at hand, Meete with the foole, and rid your royall ſhoulders Of ſuch a burden, as outweighs the ſands And all the craggie rockes of Caſpea.
  2. To exceed in importance or value. transitive
    — The advantage […] was so great that it would have taken a lot of failures to outweigh it.

词形变化

outweighs present,singular,third-person outweighing participle,present outweighed participle,past outweighed past

词汇关系

相关词
outnumber

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *ūt-
Old English ūt-
Middle English ut-
English out-
Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰeti
Proto-Germanic *weganą
Proto-West Germanic *wegan
Old English wegan
Middle English weyen
English weigh
English outweigh
From out- + weigh.
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