0 past simple and past participle of even
1 to make two things equal:
Sheila was awarded a scholarship in chemistry, and now her brother has evened the score with a scholarship in economics.
The whisky industry is campaigning for the taxes on different alcoholic drinks to be evened up.
Another matter worth looking into is how fast wriggles in the surface are evened out.
Any unexpected or high-cost medical care incurred by a municipality is evened out by adjustments within its respective hospital district.
Alas, that has been happening, but now the trend has evened out.
I am told that, in the enterprise zone, rents have evened up to take account of the fact that there are no rates.
Over the course of calendar year 1998, they will have evened out the flows.
That will create imbalances that can be evened out only by the provision of new grammar schools in areas where parents want them.
The area cost adjustment would be sorted out—evened out—so that there was fairness across the land.
Accordingly, we have inserted this paragraph which will enable the roughness to be evened out in certain cases.
