balance out

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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.

   If you consider all the negative and all the positive factors, it should balance out to something acceptable.

• cancel out

• outbalance, uncoatable