| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| equiponderate |
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| SYLLABICATION: | e·qui·pon·der·ate |
| PRONUNCIATION: |    kw -p n d-r t,  kw- |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: e·qui·pon·der·at·ed, e·qui·pon·der·at·ing, e·qui·pon·der·ates
1. To counterbalance. 2. To give equal balance or weight to. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Medieval Latin aequiponderre, aequipondert- : Latin aequi-, equi- + Latin ponderre, to weigh; see (s)pen- in Appendix I.
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