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flatten
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "to prostrate oneself," also "to fall flat," from flat (adj.) + -en (1). Transitive meaning "to make flat" is 1620s. Related: Flattened ; flattening .\n\n
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flatten \Flat"ten\ (fl[a^]t"t'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flattened ; p. pr. & vb. n. Flattening .] [From Flat , a.] 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; ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Flatten or flattened may refer to: Regrading land Flat-ten engine Svein Flåtten , Norwegian politician Mount Flatten , fictional mountain from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show animated television series Flattened rice Flattening may refer to: Flattening , ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. make flat or flatter; "flatten a road"; "flatten your stomach with these exercises" become flat or flatter; "The landscape flattened" [syn: flatten out ] lower the pitch of (musical notes) [syn: drop ] [ant: sharpen ]
Usage examples of flatten.
Somewhere up there in the aeropause, the fountain flattened into a shell of orbits encompassing the whole of He, and it was important to know how high up that shell began.
An irregular circle of alfalfa beneath the airburst flattened, ripped by the shredded iron of the shell casing.
When Andromeda loomed above him, her sun-warmed hair patterned with magical flowers, when she tickled both sets of ribs and kissed his hot belly, do you think the little puppy was anything but definitively flattened with joy?
In one case of a radicle, which was growing rather slowly, the rootcap, after encountering a rough slip of wood at right angles, was at first slightly flattened transversely: after an interval of 2 h.
When the door sagged, Jersey tossed the antipersonnel grenade into the stinking darkness and the team members flattened against a wall or hit the littered floor.
On maps it is Little Arcady, county seat of Slocum County, an isle and haven in the dreary land sea that flattens away from it on every side,--north to the big woods, south to the swamp counties, and east and west, one might almost say, a thousand miles to the mountains.
The jungle was flattened for miles around by the backblast, but the castle rose into the air as smoothly as any starship.
The land was flattening out, old road turning north to follow the course of the Bamingui River, not far above where it runs into the Bahr al-Aouk.
Blade noticed that they were slightly flattened at the ends as well, like the blades of gigantic shovels.
The grass all around the campsite had been flattened by the buffalos a smaller herd than the one that had almost trampled her father to death, but big enough to obliterate any evidence of human passing.
When he came to the Castalia Invincibles, he picked Caudell out by his chevrons, handed him a length of iron with a curved and flattened end.
Pastor Crenshaw flattened his hands and lightly smacked both palms on the table.
They tell me Hesbitt was stubborn as a mule, but Dabb an Lincoln together flattened him out soft.
Once upon the level trail of the canyon bottom I whispered a word into the pointed ear before me, couched my lance, and crouched in the saddle as the thirtieth descendent of the first Red Lightning flattened in swift charge.
El Diablo flattened you, he sent ten Devils into the forest after your friends.