Preponderate

Definition: Preponderate

Preponderate

Verb

1. Weigh more heavily.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "preponderate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references)

Synonyms: Preponderate

Authority

Have the upper hand, get the upper hand, have the whip, get the whip; gain a hold upon, preponderate, dominate, rule the roost; boss; override, overrule, overawe; lord it over, hold in hand, keep under, make a puppet of, lead by the nose, turn round one's little finger, bend to one's will, hold one's own, wear the breeches; have the ball at one's feet, have it all one's own way, have the game in one's own hand, have on the hip, have under one's thumb; be master of the situation; take the lead, play first fiddle, set the fashion; give the law to; carry with a high hand; lay down the law; "ride in the whirlwind and direct the storm"; rule with a rod of iron; (severity).

Superiority

Verb: be superior; Adjective: exceed, excel, transcend; outdo, outbalance, outweigh, outrank, outrival, out-Herod; pass, surpass, get ahead of; over-top, override, overpass, overbalance, overweigh, overmatch; top, o'ertop, cap, beat, cut out; beat hollow; outstrip; eclipse, throw into the shade, take the shine out of, outshine, put one's nose out of joint; have the upper hand, have the whip hand of, have the advantage; turn the scale, kick the beam; play first fiddle; (importance); preponderate, predominate, prevail; precede, take precedence, come first; come to a head, culminate; beat; all others, bear the palm; break the record; take the cake.

Crosswords: Preponderate

Expression using "preponderate": preponderate over. Additional references.

Albanian

peshoj më shumë, mbizotëroj (dominate, overpower, predominate, prevail, reign), kam epërsi. (various references)

Arabic 

‏هيمن (command, cover, dominate, govern, overbear, overpower, predominate), ‏تفوق (beat, beat all, break, class, distinction, eclipse, exceed, excel, excellence, get the better of, go one better, lick, mastery, outclass, outguess, overpass, overrule, pre eminence, precede, predomination, preponderance, prevalence, seniority, superiority, supremacy, surpass, top, tower, transcend, transcendence). (various references)

Bulgarian 

преобладавам (obtain, preside, prevail, reign). (various references)

Czech

převážit (outbalance, outweigh, overbalance, weigh down). (various references)

French

prédominer (predominate, prevail, prevall), être prépondérant. (various references)

German

überwiegen (be predominant, outweigh, overbalance, predominance, predominate, preponderance, prevail, to outweigh, to overbalance). (various references)

Greek 

υπερσταθμίζω, υπερισχύω (overbear, overcome, overide, overpower, predominate, prevail), επικρατώ (dominate, obtain, predominate, prevail, win). (various references)

Hungarian

túlsúlyban van (outbalance, predominate, to outweigh, to predominate, to prevail). (various references)

Italian

preponderare. (various references)

Manx

dy ve ny strimmey. (various references)

Pig Latin

eponderatepray

Portuguese

prevalecer (overcrow, overpower, overrule, overwhelm, predominate, prevail, prevail over), preponderar (overcrow, predominate, prevail), pesar mais (weigh down), exceder (better, cap, ding, exceed, go beyond, outbid, outclass, outdo, outmatch, outrun, out-top, overreach, overstep, overtake, pass by, surpass, transcend). (various references)

Romanian

preponda, cântãri mai mult. (various references)

Russian 

превосходить (be superior to, exceed, excel, get ahead of, go beyond, outbalance, outclass, outdo, outmatch, outnumber, outperform, outrank, outreach, out-top, overbear, overpass, overtop, precede, shine down, surpass, top, transcend). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

predominirati, biti nadmoćan. (various references)

Spanish

preponderar (overpoise). (various references)

Swedish

väga mer, överväga (consider, contemplate, debate, deliberate, entertain, look at, outweight). (various references)

Turkish

baskın çıkmak (euchre, extinguish, preponderate over, surpass, talk down, trump), ağır gelmek (bear down on, bear hard on), ağır basmak (have strong influence, militate, outweigh, overbalance, overbear, override, plump for, predominate), ağır çekmek (outbalance), üstün olmak (be over smb., cut across, get the better of, give points to smb., have the edge on smb., have the edge over smb., have the whip hand of, outclass, outdo, outperform, precede, predominate, preponderate over, surpass, take precedence of, tower above, transcend). (various references)

Ukrainian

переважати (beat, cart, exceed, outrank, outweigh, overbalance, overbear, overgang, overpass, overpower, overtop, precede, predominate, prevail), перевищувати (exceed, outreach, out-top, overdraw, overrun, overshoot, overtop). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "preponderate": preponderated, preponderately, preponderates. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: reoperated.

-3 letters: entrapped, notepaper, partnered, perorated, pretender, reoperate, repapered.

-4 letters: dapperer, departee, deportee, endpaper, operated, panderer, pardoner, parented, parroted, perorate, ponderer, portered, preadopt, predator, prepared, pretaped, pronated, prorated, reearned, reopened, repartee, repeated, repeater, repented, repenter, repetend, reported, rerepeat, teardrop, tenderer.

-5 letters: adepter, adoptee, adopter, adorner, aproned, dropper, eardrop, entered, enterer, erodent, notepad, operand, operant.

+1 letter: preponderated, preponderates.

+2 letters: preponderately.

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