counterpose

verb counterpose

• outweigh — to exceed in value, importance, influence, etc.: The advantages of the plan outweighed its defects.
• neutralize — to make neutral; cause to undergo neutralization.
• negate — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
• counteract — To counteract something means to reduce its effect by doing something that produces an opposite effect.
• balance — If you balance something somewhere, or if it balances there, it remains steady and does not fall.