evened

Verb

even (third-person singular simple present evens, present participle evening, simple past and past participle evened)

1. (transitive) To make flat and level.
   • We need to even this playing field; the west goal is too low.

   Synonyms:

   flatten, level

2. (obsolete, transitive) To equal or equate; to make the same.
   • The Engliſh Earl [William Longespée the Younger], though he ſtood on the lower ground in point of birth, yet conceived himſelf to even him [Robert I, Count of Artois] in valour and martiall knowledge.1639, Thomas Fuller, “Discords betwixt the French and English; the Death & Disposition of Meladine King of Egypt”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one...
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To be equal.
   • Thrice nine evens twenty seven.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To place in an equal state, as to obligation, or in a state in which nothing is due on either side; to balance, as accounts; to make quits.
   • We need to even the score.

   Synonyms:

   settle

5. (obsolete, transitive) To set right; to complete.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To act up to; to keep pace with.
   • Prithee away,
     There's more to be considered: but we'll even
     All that good time will give us.c. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, act 3, scene 4

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Verb

evene (third-person singular simple present evenes, present participle evening, simple past and past participle evened)

1. (obsolete) To occur; to happen; to come to pass.
   • What would evene, if an eagle that is carried by the course of the wind, should let a stone fall from its talons.1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two).

   Synonyms:

   come to pass, occur, transpire