Verb (used with object), : to equalize tax burdens. ,to equalize a rate of production.    From Dictionary.com. 

I don't think I've ever seen that happen to someone I know individually, but occasionally I've seen the marks of everyone in the class 'equalized' simultaneously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grade adjustments] Reference

Just wait until homosexual behavior is fully "equalized" in law.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Knowing their ideas such as equalized misery and high taxes don't sell well to the listening public, they would force us to listen, or at least, force broadcasters to sell them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily News-Record] Reference

One canal we believe is equalized, so it's stable.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2005] Reference

Just a few minutes ago, Costa Rica equalized, 1-all.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2006] Reference

Thus the temperature of all parts is nearly equalized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference

I equalized the pressure between my hands and pulled inward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Persuader]

But public education should be something closer to equalized.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2005] Reference

Water from outside was then admitted until the pressure was equalized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Undersea Search, or, the Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic] Reference

All ranks are wonderfully equalized under the fire of a masked battery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference

The surcharged cloud pours its electricity into the empty one, and both are equalized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls] Reference

GORANI: It's the quarterfinals and they just equalized in their match against Argentina.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2006] Reference

Now, of course, shortened working hours and medical advances have equalized the life-span.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Crowded Earth] Reference

But winds were dying down as the sun climbed and the warmth of day equalized temperatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hokas Pokas]

Certain conditions there are, however, which are more important and which can be equalized.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896] Reference

Then the pressure between the two vessels is equalized and the crew members are brought out.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Russian Sub Rescue Mission Under Way - August 15, 2000] Reference

The application of the equation for equalized relative velocities, as in the first test, gives.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water Supply of the El Paso and Southwestern Railway from Carrizozo to Santa Rosa, N. Mex. American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, No. 1170] Reference

The more the temperature rises the more the tensions of the two liquids tend to become equalized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881] Reference

The pressure between sphere and submarine will then be equalized, allowing the evacuation to begin.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Russian Submarine Accident: Rescue Attempt Threatened by Weather - August 15, 2000] Reference

With it we have purified, equalized, wearied, and dehumanized supreme experiences of human existence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humanistic Nursing] Reference

The power and resistance being equalized through opposite cylinders, large fly wheels are not necessary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891] Reference

They are much more likely to have good nerves, clean thoughts, sound digestion, and equalized circulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mother and Her Child] Reference

Stepping into the air lock, they quickly equalized the pressure and a moment later climbed out on the hull.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sabotage in Space] Reference

The molecular concentration of tissue and blood fluid is constantly being equalized by the process of osmosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disease and Its Causes] Reference

Now because they've burst through, and everything that pressures equalized, they can put something down there.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2002] Reference

Van Rijn equalized positive and negative forces in a heterodyning interplay which, in effect, welded him fast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Book of Stormgate]

If, in addition, there had been a redistribution of seats by which the sizes of constituencies had been equalized, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

When the pressures are equalized, it opens at a touch, you walk inside, close number 4 rear door, and walk away again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice Station Zebra]

We eased off the clips on the for'ard collision bulkhead door, knocked them off cautiously as the pressures equalized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice Station Zebra]

For a considerable time the terror seemed equalized among all ranks; gradually it began to turn entirely on the commons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference

Moving with amazing speed for a big man, he donned the space suit in the chamber while the pressure was being equalized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sabotage in Space] Reference

When the pressures were equalized, he shut the stopcock, unclamped the door and stepped in, clamping it shut behind him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forever War]

When the candles have hardened, the ends are equalized with a wooden or tin spatula, and then the piston table is raised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887] Reference

On health care we need to highlight the incredible success of Medicare -- it equalized health care after people turned 65.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kevin Zeese: We Need a New Language to Provide a Vision for a New Economy] Reference

It took five minutes, but the temperature of the plutonium and high explosive equalized and the core slipped meekly into place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stallion Gate]

The strains are direct and the power and resistance are equalized by the inertia of the crosshead, piston, rods, and fly wheels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891] Reference

Because in 1854, after the duties shall have been equalized, it will be enabled to undersell the British article in its own market.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

The breaks or changes in register so noticeable in the untrained voice are covered or equalized in the voice trained by correct methods.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs] Reference