Equiponderate (verb)
ek-wee-pon-duh-rayt
To equal or offset in weight, force, importance, etc.; counterbalance.
1635–45; Medieval Latin aequiponderātus, past participle of aequiponderāre. See equi-, ponder, -ate
Example sentences
“The problem is, the government did not want to accept that other world powers were equiponderate to it.”
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