EVEN OFF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does even off mean? 

• EVEN OFF (verb)
  The verb EVEN OFF has 1 sense:

1. adjust for

  Familiarity information: EVEN OFF used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVEN OFF (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Adjust for

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

compensate; correct; counterbalance; even off; even out; even up; make up

Context example:

engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance

Hypernyms (to "even off" is one way to...):

balance; equilibrate; equilibrise; equilibrize (bring into balance or equilibrium)

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

carry (compensate for a weaker partner or member by one's own performance)

compensate; cover; overcompensate (make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

 Context examples 

However, most of genetic variants are located outside genes, sometimes regulating the function of genes, turning their ‘volume’ up or down or even off.

(Detailed genetic study provides most comprehensive map of risk to date of breast cancer risk, University of Cambridge)