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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
equalise

chiefly British English spelling of equalize; see -ize. Related: Equalised; equalising; equaliser; equalisation.

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equalise

vb. (standard form of equalize from=non-Oxford British spelling English)

WordNet
equalise
  1. v. compensate; make the score equal [syn: equalize, get even]

  2. make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching; "let's equalize the duties among all employees in this office"; "The company matched the discount policy of its competitors" [syn: equal, match, equalize, equate]

Usage examples of "equalise".

I thought none but the devil himself could equalise me for inward wickedness and pollution of mind.

Something must come with him into the hollow void of death in his soul, fill it up, and so equalise the pressure within to the pressure without.

The day was sunny and warm, but a clear fire equalised the temperature of the room.

He restored the lever to its middle position with some difficulty, and the wings were equalised again.

On the other hand, from the point of view of quality, we have something which is being used up, lowered, degraded, exhausted: energy expended, movement dissipated, constructions breaking up, weights falling, levels becoming equalised, and differences effaced.

They equalised with a direct free kick from Rivelino that dipped and spun and swerved in the thin Mexican air (had I ever seen a goal scored direct from a free kick before?

Arsenal were winning 1-0, and as Liverpool had equalised in the last seconds of the previous game, I couldn’t bear to hear it through to the end.

I sat and stood and smoked and wandered around for the entirety of the second half, unable to read or talk or think, until Liverpool equalised in injury time.

But Charlie equalised before half-time, after he had hit the post and caused a massive scramble in the Liverpool penalty area.

The reefs were still numerous, but more equalised, and marked on the chart with extreme precision.

And though Heath equalises soon after, Rocky then makes up for his earlier miss, and Smith gets another one, and the whole of Highbury, all four sides of the ground, is alive, yelling and hugging itself with delight at the prospect of another Wembley final, and the manner in which it has been achieved.

Becky consoled herself by so balancing the chances and equalising the distribution of good and evil in the world.