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flatten(dictionary)
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flatten (iou)



flatten verb. Cf. FLAT verb1. M17.
[from FLAT adjective + -EN5.]
verb trans. Make flat in shape; reduce to a plane surface; make broad and thin; reduce the thickness or height of, esp. by pressure; squeeze or beat flat. M17.
D. L. Sayers Bunter, like a steam-roller, had passed over everything, flattening out all traces of upheaval. F. O'Connor Flattening themselves against the side to let..people through. W. Golding The water was smoother today as though the dead air were flattening it.
verb trans. Make flat, vapid, or insipid; make dull or spiritless; deprive of interest; deaden, depress. M17.
G. Burnet The odiousness of the crime grew at last to be so much flatten'd by the frequent executions. Burke So far from endeavouring to excite this spirit, nothing has been omitted to flatten and lower it.
b. verb intrans. Become insipid or dull; lose spirit, droop. L17.
R. L'Estrange Satisfactions that..flatten in the very tasting.
verb intrans. Be or become flat or flatter; lose convexity or protuberance; grow broad at the expense of thickness. Also foll. by out. E18.
b. Nautical. Of the wind etc.: decrease in force. M18.
G. Anson The storm at length flattening to a calm.
verb trans. Music. Lower in pitch by a semitone. E19.
verb trans. Paint (a surface) with a matt finish; deprive (paint) of lustre. E19.
verb trans. Knock down. Also, defeat crushingly, humiliate. colloq. L19.
M. Gee We would have flattened them, me and my mates in the army.
Phrases: flatten in Nautical extend a sail more nearly fore-and-aft of the vessel. flatten out Aeronautics bring an aircraft into a position parallel with the ground; (of an aircraft) assume such a position.
flattener noun M18.
flattening verbal noun the action or process of making or becoming flat; the condition of being flattened: E18.