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verb

Flatten v. t. (past & past part. flattened; pres. part. flattening)

To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.

To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.

To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.

(Mus.) To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch.

To flatten a sail (Naut.), to set it more nearly fore-and-aft of the vessel.

Flattening oven, in glass making, a heated chamber in which split glass cylinders are flattened for window glass.

Flatten v. i. To become or grow flat, even, depressed, dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch.

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Etymology of 'Flatten'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flatten" Quotes from Famous Books

... could have effected this by gnawing away the convex side; and I suspect that the bees in such cases stand in the opposed cells and push and bend the ductile and warm wax (which as I have tried is easily done) into its proper intermediate plane, and thus flatten it. ...

— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin

... out at the fields where the grains and vegetables were growing, thinking how easy it was to farm here—plenty of rain, plenty of sun, no storms to flatten and ruin the crops, not even enough insect pests to worry a man. He looked out at the fenced pastures where ...

— Eight Keys to Eden • Mark Irvin Clifton

... good for the like of you," says he, "and go on now or I'll flatten you out like a crawling beast has passed under a dray." "You will not if I can help it," says I. "Go on," says he, "or I'll have the divil making garters of your limbs tonight." "You will not if I can help it," says I. [He sits up, ...

— The Playboy of the Western World • J. M. Synge

... one that has haunted my mind these many years, that the follies of the West flatten against the sublime wisdom of the East like bullets ...

— Memoirs of My Dead Life • George Moore

... Perhaps Julia and her mother would find George there, with his coat and shoes off, and his big body flung down across the bed, asleep. George would wake up slowly, with much yawning and grumbling, Emeline would add her gloves and belt to the unspeakable confusion of the bureau, and Julia would flatten her tired little back against the curve of an armchair and follow with heavy, brilliant eyes the ...

— The Story Of Julia Page - Works of Kathleen Norris, Volume V. • Kathleen Norris

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