英和和英

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /kaʊntəˈweɪ/

動詞

counterweigh ‎(三人称単数 現在形 counterweighs, 現在分詞 counterweighing, 過去形および過去分詞形 counterweighed)

1. (intransitive) To act as counterbalance (against something).
2. (transitive) To counterbalance; to balance out.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 709:

     Yet Francis's favour could not counterweigh the disastrous flaw in European Christian mission in Africa, its association with the Portuguese slave trade.