"level off" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-level off.ogg [Australia] Forms: levels off [present, singular, third-person], leveling off [participle, present], levelling off [participle, present], leveled off [participle, past], leveled off [past], levelled off [participle, past], levelled off [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*|past2=levelled off|pres_ptc2=levelling off}} level off (third-person singular simple present levels off, present participle leveling off or levelling off, simple past and past participle leveled off or levelled off)
  1. (intransitive, idiomatic) to get to a stable level; to cease climbing, descending, or oscillating Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Coordinate_terms: level up Translations (to get to a stable level, to cease oscillating): stabilizzarsi (Italian), 頭打ち (atamauchi) (Japanese), выравниваться (vyravnivatʹsja) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-level_off-en-verb-PkSKaAhk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (off)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for level off meaning in English (2.6kB)

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