English > equilibrate: 2 senses > verb 2, stative| Meaning | Bring into balance or equilibrium. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
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| Synonyms | balance, equilibrize, equilibrise |
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| Narrower | cancel, offset, set off | Make up for |
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| compensate, counterbalance, correct, make up, even out, even off, even up | Adjust for |
| complement | make complete or perfect |
| offset, countervail | compensate for or counterbalance / counterbalance |
| trim | balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces |
| Broader | match, fit | make correspond or harmonize |
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| Opposite | unbalance | Throw out of balance or equilibrium |
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| Similar to | balance | Be in equilibrium |
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| poise, balance | hold or carry in equilibrium |
| Spanish | equilibrar, nivelar |
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| Catalan | anivellar, compensar, equilibrar |
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| Nouns | equilibrium | a sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head |
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| equilibrium | a chemical reaction and its reverse proceed at equal rates |
| equilibrium | equality of distribution |
| equilibrium | a stable situation in which forces cancel one another |