level out en · VERB
Meanings
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(intransitive) To become even.
Will the seemingly insatiable demand for the product ever level out?
2016 October 24, Owen Gibson, “Is the unthinkable happening – are people finally switching the football off”, in The Guardian, London:
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(transitive) To cause (something) to be even.
Mohr took some of them with him to make a road for the lorry, from the highroad to the grave, they levelled out the ground, cut off branches from the bush and heaped them on the path, for the ground was slippery.
1937, Karen Blixen, Out of Africa, London: Putnam, Part 5, Chapter 3:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| levelling out | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | UK | lexicographic |
| levels out | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| leveling out | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | US | lexicographic |
| leveled out | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | US | lexicographic |
| leveled out | Tense=Past | US | lexicographic |
| levelled out | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | UK | lexicographic |
| levelled out | Tense=Past | UK | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Translations (18)
it stabilizzarsi (to become even) · pl wyrównywać się (to become even) · pl ustabilizować się (to become even) · pl wyrównywać (to cause to be even) · it livellare (to cause to be even) · fi tasoittaa (to cause to be even) · uk нівелюва́ти (to cause to be even) · uk вирі́внювати (to cause to be even) · uk ви́рівнятися (to become even) · pl stabilizować się (to become even) · it pareggiare (to cause to be even) · pl ustabilizować (to cause to be even) · fi tasoittua (to become even) · uk вирі́внюватися (to become even) · pl wyrównać (to cause to be even) · pl stabilizować (to cause to be even) · pl wyrównać się (to become even) · uk ви́рівняти (to cause to be even)