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Definitions for: Flatten
[v] lower the pitch of (musical notes)
[v] become flat or flatter; "The landscape flattened"
[v] make flat or flatter; "flatten a road", "flatten your stomach with these exercises"
Webster (1913) Definition: Flat"ten, 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.
Flat"ten, v. i.
To become or grow flat, even, depressed dull, vapid,
spiritless, or depressed below pitch.
Synonyms: drop, flatten out
Antonyms: sharpen
See Also: alter, change, change form, change shape, deform, form, laminate, press, roll, roll out, shape, splat
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