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What does preponderate mean?

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  1. (transitive) To outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance.
  2. (transitive) To overpower by stronger or moral power.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to prefer; to incline; to decide.
  4. (intransitive) To exceed in weight; hence, to predominate
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Surprisingly, the designer tries to do too much with the set, though, to be sure, a play in which mime and simulation preponderate leaves little room for a designer.
Here the Cladius mariscus sedge swamp and the Schoenus dominated communities which gave the name to the fen preponderate.
The cases of hyperpyrexia preponderate in first attacks of rheumatic fever.
If the members of it are to revert to a dependence on the democratic choice, the democratic scale will preponderate.
Azerbaijan encouraged Benin to bring its legislation in line with international standards and give a preponderate place to education.
The reasons which induce me nevertheless to decline, under existing circumstances, preponderate.

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