The Collaborative International Dictionary
Equalize \E"qual*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Equalized; p. pr. & vb. n. Equalizing.] [Cf. F. ['e]galiser.]
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To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes.
One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low.
--Wordsworth.No system of instruction will completely equalize natural powers.
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To pronounce equal; to compare as equal.
Which we equalize, and perhaps would willingly prefer to the Iliad.
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To be equal to; equal; to match. [Obs.]
It could not equalize the hundredth part Of what her eyes have kindled in my heart.
--Waller.Equalizing bar (Railroad Mach.), a lever connecting two axle boxes, or two springs in a car truck or locomotive, to equalize the pressure on the axles.
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vb. (present participle of equalize English)
Usage examples of "equalizing".
In that project great difficulties arose in equalizing the objects to be exchanged.
Why, this is not much, I readily admit, for anything but the utter subversion of your equalizing principle.
As to the Assembly, occupied as it was with the declaration and violation of the rights of men, and with their arrangements for general confusion, it had neither leisure nor capacity to contrive, nor authority to enforce, any plan of any kind relative to the replacing the tax or equalizing it, or compensating the provinces, or for conducting their minds to any scheme of accommodation with other districts which were to be relieved.
Hrriss's nether regions, too, were trouser clad, and his tail had worked down a leg, thereby equalizing the appearance of the two friends.
Energy filled me, the balance equalizing in the time between memory and action.
Energy flowed, equalizing in the time it takes for a burst bubble to vanish.