"counterweigh" meaning in English

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        "To act as counterbalance (against something)."
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        "(intransitive) To act as counterbalance (against something)."
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          "text": "Yet Francis's favour could not counterweigh the disastrous flaw in European Christian mission in Africa, its association with the Portuguese slave trade.",
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        "To counterbalance; to balance out."
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        "(transitive) To counterbalance; to balance out."
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