EVEN UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does even up mean? 

• EVEN UP (verb)
  The verb EVEN UP has 2 senses:

1. adjust for

2. even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing

  Familiarity information: EVEN UP used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVEN UP (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 up" is one way to...):

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

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

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:

Even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

even up; jog; square up

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

square (position so as to be square)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Your major promotion may not come immediately—your chart shows it may take several months or even up to four years to fully prove your worth—but it will come.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Another told him that he had found a cloak which rendered its wearer invisible; and the third had caught a horse which would carry its rider over any obstacle, and even up the glass mountain.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)