0 something, typically death, that affects people of every class and rank in the same way, making everyone seem equal: --
I asked, pointing to a group of noisy sand levelers not far away.
And the life is the leveler of the words, up or down.
Whatever malignant poison had seeped into the collective brain of the nation, it was certainly a devastating leveler of all sorts of institutions and values.
Then, too, poverty, the great leveler, had come upon the family.
True love is a greater leveler than anarchy.
Sorrow is as great a leveler as death.
Matrimony in that case was a good leveler of imaginary rank.
A common peril is a mighty leveler of barriers.
