PREPONDERATE

vt to overpower by stronger or moral power.

2. preponderate ·vt to cause to prefer; to incline; to decide.

3. preponderate ·vt to outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance.

4. preponderate ·vi to exceed in weight; hence, to incline or descend, as the scale of a balance; figuratively, to exceed in influence, power, ·etc.; hence; to incline to one side; as, the affirmative side preponderated.