EVEN OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does even out mean? 

• EVEN OUT (verb)
  The verb EVEN OUT has 4 senses:

1. adjust for

2. make level or straight

3. become even or more even

4. make even or more even

  Familiarity information: EVEN OUT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVEN OUT (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 out" is one way to...):

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

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

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make level or straight

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

even; even out; flush; level

Context example:

level the ground

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

change surface (undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface)

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

grade (level to the right gradient)

strickle; strike (smooth with a strickle)

strickle (level off with a strickle in a measuring container)

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

Become even or more even

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

even; even out

Context example:

even out the surface

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

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 4

Meaning:

Make even or more even

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

even; even out

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

regularise; regularize (make regular or more regular)

Cause:

even; even out (become even or more even)

Sentence frames:

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

 Context examples 

And O, Agnes, even out of thy true eyes, in that same time, the spirit of my child-wife looked upon me, saying it was well; and winning me, through thee, to tenderest recollections of the Blossom that had withered in its bloom!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)