0 past simple and past participle of even --
1 to make two things equal: --
The whisky industry is campaigning for the taxes on different alcoholic drinks to be evened up.
Sheila was awarded a scholarship in chemistry, and now her brother has evened the score with a scholarship in economics.
But they can and will be evened out, largely by means of retraining.
They can be evened out only through long term policies of regional development.
It is useless to say that one will be evened out with the other.
Under the endowment system, the cost would be evened out right through the life of the mortgage.
Some time after that, there was a period when prices rose again on the mainland and matters evened out.
Why must everything be evened out across an even playing field?
In debating the common agricultural policy, it is worth remembering that world commodity prices have evened out.
Accordingly, we have inserted this paragraph which will enable the roughness to be evened out in certain cases.