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flatten (v. trans.)
1.to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition"crush an aluminum can" "squeeze a lemon"
2.lower the pitch of (musical notes)
3.become flat or flatter"The landscape flattened"
4.make flat or flatter"flatten a road" "flatten your stomach with these exercises"
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Merriam Webster
FlattenFlat"ten (flăt"t'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flattened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Flattening.] [From Flat, a.]
1. To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.
2. To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.
3. To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
4. (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.
FlattenFlat"ten, v. i. To become or grow flat, even, depressed, dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch.
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flatten (v. tr.)
flatten off; flatten; flatten out[ClasseHyper.]
press[Hyper.]
equal, even, flat, flush, level, plane, plano[Rendre+Attrib.]
compaction, crunch, crush - crusher, kibbler - juicer, squeezer - squeeze, wring - mash - mash[Dérivé]
flatten (v. tr.)
(slab)[termes liés]
flatten (v. tr.)
alter, change, modify[Hyper.]
sharpen[Ant.]
flatten (v. tr.)
flatten (v. tr.)
form, shape[Hyper.]
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