level out
verb1
To become even.
- Will the seemingly insatiable demand for the product ever level out?2016 October 24, Owen Gibson, “Is the unthinkable happening – are people finally switching the football off”, in The Guardian, London:
2
To cause (something) to be even.
- Mohr took some of them with him to make a road for the lorry, from the highroad to the grave, they levelled out the ground, cut off branches from the bush and heaped them on the path, for the ground was slippery.1937, Karen Blixen, Out of Africa, London: Putnam, Part 5, Chapter 3:
- Synonyms
- plateau