evened
- 1Simple past and past participle of even.
The carpenter evened the table legs so it no longer wobbled.
A late penalty evened the match at two goals each.
Note
A regular past form: one -ed spelling serves both as the simple past (she evened the ground) and as the participle after have or be (the ground has been evened). Today it carries the transitive sense of making something flat and level. The older uses this verb once had, such as equating two things, balancing accounts, making quits and keeping pace with someone, are all obsolete.
- 2i-VEEND/ɪˈviːnd/Simple past and past participle of evene. Obsolete.
Note
Here the spelling belongs to a different, obsolete verb, evene, which meant "to occur" or "to come to pass." It describes events happening rather than anything being done to an object. Modern text almost always means the "made level" past tense instead. Read it this way only in old writing, where something came about rather than being flattened or balanced.
evened is a form of even
even, verb: To make things equal or balanced, or to become so, said of a score, a contest, or an uneven distribution; often used with out or up. Full entry
- Spelling
- even → evened: add -ed
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