equalize Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb compensate; make the score equal
    equalise; get even.
  2. verb make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching
    equate; equal; match; equalise.
    • let's equalize the duties among all employees in this office
    • The company matched the discount policy of its competitors

WordNet


E"qual*ize transitive verb
Etymology
Cf. F. égaliser.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Equalized ; present participle & verbal noun Equalizing
Definitions
  1. 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. Whately.
  2. To pronounce equal; to compare as equal.
    Which we equalize, and perhaps would willingly prefer to the Iliad. Orrery.
  3. 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.

Webster 1913