Usually means: To outweigh or dominate in influence.
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  1. preponderate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. preponderate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. preponderate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. preponderate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. preponderate: Vocabulary.com
  6. preponderate: Wordnik
  7. preponderate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. preponderate: Wiktionary
  9. preponderate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. preponderate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. preponderate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. preponderate: Dictionary.com
  13. preponderate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Preponderate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. preponderate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. preponderate: Rhymezone
  17. Preponderate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. preponderate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. preponderate: Free Dictionary
  20. preponderate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. preponderate: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  2. preponderate: Legal dictionary

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  1. preponderate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (preponderate)

verb:  (transitive) To outweigh; to be heavier than; to exceed in weight.
verb:  (transitive) To overpower by stronger or moral power.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To cause to prefer; to incline; to decide.
verb:  (intransitive) To exceed in weight or influence; hence, to predominate.

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