EQUILIBRIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does equilibrize mean? 

• EQUILIBRIZE (verb)
  The verb EQUILIBRIZE has 1 sense:

1. bring into balance or equilibrium

  Familiarity information: EQUILIBRIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EQUILIBRIZE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bring into balance or equilibrium

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

balance; equilibrate; equilibrise; equilibrize

Context example:

balance the two weights

Hypernyms (to "equilibrize" is one way to...):

fit; match (make correspond or harmonize)

Verb group:

balance; poise (hold or carry in equilibrium)

balance (be in equilibrium)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "equilibrize"):

complement (make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to)

compensate; correct; counterbalance; even off; even out; even up; make up (adjust for)

cancel; offset; set off (make up for)

countervail; offset (compensate for or counterbalance)

trim (balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

equilibrium (equality of distribution)

equilibrium (a stable situation in which forces cancel one another)