"balance out" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-balance out.ogg [Australia] Forms: balances out [present, singular, third-person], balancing out [participle, present], balanced out [participle, past], balanced out [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} balance out (third-person singular simple present balances out, present participle balancing out, simple past and past participle balanced out)
  1. (idiomatic, of contrasting elements) To counteract one another so as to be balanced. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: cancel out
    Sense id: en-balance_out-en-verb-NJ6FJV5m Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (out)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for balance out meaning in English (1.7kB)

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