evened

verb

past tense of even
1
as in smoothed
to make free from breaks, curves, or bumps even the filling before adding the top layer of the cake

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2
as in balanced
to make equal in amount, degree, or status the contention that producing more arms will even us with the enemy and therefore make us more secure

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Recent Examples of evened Australia evened the match in the 55th when Egypt defender Mohamed Hany became the first player to score two own-goals in the same World Cup. — ABC News, 3 July 2026 The Brooklynites evened the playoff ledger in the 2024 semifinals. — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 30 June 2026 The Padres evened the score with a Gavin Sheets’ solo home run off Dodgers starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who’d go on to limit the Padres to two runs through six innings. — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2026 Chelsea Green crawled from under the ring and evened the odds. — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026 Turkey evened it in the 10th minute with an excellent two-man game from Baris Alper Yilmaz and Güler, the 21-year-old Real Madrid rising star. — Greg Beacham, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026 Willi Castro continued his hot streak with two RBIs and TJ Rumfield hit a two-run home run as the Colorado Rockies evened their series against the Chicago Cubs with a 5-2 win Tuesday. — CBS News, 16 June 2026 Matthews hit a 434-foot blast to center field — his second homer of the series — as Houston evened the score at 4. — Kansas City Star, 14 June 2026 Bridget Fivek evened the score early in the third quarter, and that score held for nearly five minutes until Nora Connerty buried a go-ahead goal for the Cougars. — Jack Murray, Boston Herald, 11 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evened
  1. smoothed
  2. balanced
  3. adjusted
  4. equated
  5. equalized
Verb
  • My father had been a projectionist briefly in the ’50s, and that smoothed my path into the union, which was a very closed union.
    — Chris Stanton, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The hair at the crown is smoothed back but not slick—in fact, there’s a decent amount of volume up top—with virtually no visible part.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 2 July 2026
Definition of smoothed
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  • The books get balanced by the activities that are happening all the time.
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • During the demonstration, the units automatically balanced changing electrical loads while maintaining stable power output.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of balanced
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  • Earnings, adjusted for one-time items, totaled 18 cents per share.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 4 Aug. 2026
  • My trusty spreadsheet found another slice of improving economics across the Golden State by eyeballing the number of jobless workers in June, data not adjusted for seasonal swings.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of adjusted
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  • Vikings Hall of Famer John Randle equated Ryan to the person, cloaked head to foot in soot, who shovels coal into a train engine without the passengers ever seeing his face.
    — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 24 July 2026
  • In a world that had long equated labor with the physical act of making things, such a shift was seen as not terribly manly, and potentially dangerous to society as a whole.
    — Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026
Definition of equated
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  • Endrick and Alexis Ciria scored for Madrid, who led 2-0 before Fiorentina equalized through Roberto Piccoli and Moise Kean.
    — Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Ezekiel Alladoh scored the winner in the 97th minute, one minute after Neil Pierre equalized the match, as the Philadelphia Union rallied from two goals down to beat Atlanta United 3-2 on Saturday in stoppage time.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of equalized

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“Evened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evened. Accessed 5 Aug. 2026.

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