1. The act of making equal or uniform
   "The leveling of salaries across departments improved employee morale";
   - equalization, equalisation [Brit], levelling [Brit, Cdn]
    
2. Changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface
   "The construction crew began leveling the site for the new building";
   - grading, levelling [Brit, Cdn]
    
3. Complete destruction of a building
   "The leveling of the old factory made way for a new park";
   - razing, tearing down, demolishing, levelling [Brit, Cdn]

1. Make level or straight
   "level the ground";
   - flush, even out, even
    
2. Become level or even
   - level off
    
3. Aim at
   "level criticism or charges at somebody"
    
4. Direct into a position for use
   - charge, point
    
5. Destroy or completely remove a building or structure
   "When a force occupies an enemy fortress, it may level the fortifications";
   - raze, rase [archaic], dismantle, tear down, take down, pull down, flatten, demolish, knock down
    
6. Talk frankly with; lay it on the line
   "I have to level with you"

Derived forms: levelings

Type of: act, aim, building, change surface, construction, deed, destroy, destruct, destruction, devastation, direct, human action, human activity, speak, spifflicate [Brit, informal], spiflicate [Brit, informal], take, take aim, talk, train, uncreate [literary]

Encyclopedia: Leveling