Usually means: Lose stability and fall over.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word overbalance:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. overbalance: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overbalance: Merriam-Webster
  3. overbalance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overbalance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overbalance: Collins English Dictionary
  6. overbalance: Vocabulary.com
  7. overbalance: Wordnik
  8. overbalance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. overbalance: Wiktionary
  10. overbalance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. overbalance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. overbalance: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Overbalance, overbalance: Dictionary.com
  14. Overbalance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. overbalance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. overbalance: Rhymezone
  17. Overbalance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. overbalance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. overbalance: FreeDictionary.org
  20. overbalance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. overbalance: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To be more important than; to outweigh.
verb:  (transitive) To cause an imbalance in (something) by means of excess weight or numbers.
verb:  (transitive) To throw (someone or something) off balance; to cause to capsize.
verb:  (intransitive) To lose one's balance; to fall over.
noun:  Excess of weight or value; something more than an equivalent.

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