Associations to the word «Preponderate»

Wiktionary

PREPONDERATE, verb. (transitive) To outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance.
PREPONDERATE, verb. (transitive) To overpower by stronger or moral power.
PREPONDERATE, verb. (transitive) (obsolete) To cause to prefer; to incline; to decide.
PREPONDERATE, verb. (intransitive) To exceed in weight; hence, to predominate

Dictionary definition

PREPONDERATE, verb. Weigh more heavily; "these considerations outweigh our wishes".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats