Counterpoised
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verb.
Simple past tense and past participle of
counterpoise
.
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adjective.
brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another
Word Usage
"When Zeus decides who should die in a battle, he weighs the souls of the warriors in counterpoised scale pans until one outweighs the other."
Equivalent
balanced
verb-stem
counterpoise