Counteract vs Equalize - What's the difference?
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To act in opposition to; thwart; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.
To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree.
* Wordsworth
* Whately
(obsolete) To be equal to; to equal, to rival.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.9:
* Milton
(sports) To make the scoreline equal by scoring points.
(underwater diving) To clear the ears to balance the pressure in the middle ear with the outside pressure by letting air enter along the Eustachian tubes.
As verbs the difference between counteract and equalize
is that counteract is to act in opposition to; thwart; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice while equalize is to make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree.counteract
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(en verb)Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* counteractant * counteracter * counteractingly * counteraction * counteractive * counteractively * counteractorequalize
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* equalise (non-Oxford British spelling) * (obsolete)Verb
(equaliz)- to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes
- One poor moment can suffice / To equalize the lofty and the low.
- No system of instruction will completely equalize natural powers.
- But a third kingdom yet is to arise / Out of the Trojans scattered ofspring, / That in all glory and great enterprise, / Both first and second Troy shall dare to equalise .
- polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms