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levelingverbor levellingpresent participle of level to make equal in amount, degree, or statuswe'll give both teams the same equipment so as to level the playing field balancing, equalizing, equating, evening equilibrating, equipoisingaccommodating, adjusting, compensating, fittingcounterbalancinghomogenizing, normalizing, regularizing, standardizingdemocratizing disequilibrating to make free from breaks, curves, or bumpsthe construction workers leveled the ground before laying a foundation for the new house evening, flattening, planing, smoothening, smoothing clipping, cropping, paring, pruning, shaving, trimminglaying, pressing, spreadingcarding, combing, rakingsurfacing roughening, roughing coarsening, rumpling, wrinklingbending, kinkingdenting, pitting to point or turn (something) toward a target or goalthe marksman leveled his gun at the target and fired aiming, bending, casting, directing, heading, holding, pinpointing, setting, training sightingbearing, facingconcentrating, focusing(also focussing)inclining, orienting, steering averting, curving, deflecting, detouring, diverting, rechanneling, shunting, sidetracking to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fallthe boxer leveled his opponent with a single blow bowling (down or over), downing, dropping, felling, flooring, knocking down, knocking over, mowing (down), prostrating kayoing, knocking out, KO'ingoverthrowing, throwing down, topplingbanging, bashing, belting, bludgeoning, clobbering, hammering, hitting, jabbing, pasting, poking, pounding, punching, slamming, slapping, slogging, slugging, smacking, smiting, socking, swatting, swiping, thumping, thwacking, walloping, whacking, whaling to destroy (as a building) completely by knocking down or breaking to piecesan old warehouse that was leveled to build a parking lot demolishing, pulling down, razing, tearing down, unbuilding blowing up, dynamitingabolishing, annihilating, cracking up, crushing, dashing, decimating, destroying, devastating, devouring, dissolving, doing in, eradicating, extirpating, finishing, flattening, obliterating, overturning, pulverizing, ravaging, ruining, scourging, smashing, totaling(or totalling), unmaking, wasting, wiping out, wrecking building, constructing, erecting, putting up, raisingrebuilding, renewing, renovating, restoringcreating, fabricating, fashioning, forging, forming, making, manufacturing, shaping |