Flatten
['flæt(ə)n] or ['flætn]
Definition
(verb.) lower the pitch of (musical notes).
(verb.) become flat or flatter; 'The landscape flattened'.
(verb.) make flat or flatter; 'flatten a road'; 'flatten your stomach with these exercises'.
Edited by Bonita--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.
(a.) To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.
(a.) To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
(a.) To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch.
(v. i.) To become or grow flat, even, depressed dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch.
Edited by Harold
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Make flat.
v. n. Become flat.
Typed by Ellie
Examples
- When we look at an object several hundred feet away, the muscles change their pull on the lens and flatten it until it is of the proper curvature for the new distance. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Opposition may dissolve, antagonistic cults flatten out to a common culture, almost imperceptibly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Even though the muscles of accommodation do their best to pull out and flatten the lens, the rays are not separated sufficiently to focus as far back as the retina. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Will that scar flatten out? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- No one had ever carried the hay away and the four seasons that had passed had flattened the cocks and made the hay worthless. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- This machine, see Fig. 168, receives the dough at A, where it is coated with flour and flattened into a sheet between rolls. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Mr. Dagley himself made a figure in the landscape, carrying a pitchfork and wearing his milking-hat--a very old beaver flattened in front. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened it out on the table. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He flattened it out upon the table, and a cry of triumph burst from his lips. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It had been stepped on and flattened. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- So she put all that sort of sentiment, once and for ever, in a grave, and filled it up, and flattened it down. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Then a machine was needed and invented to wind the corn-brush with the cord or wire and tie it in a round bunch, preparatory to flattening and sewing it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- She smiled in Robert Jordan's face and put her brown hand up and ran it over her head, flattening the hair which rose again as her hand passed. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Here he is, said he, sitting down and flattening it out upon his knee. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- There was a break in the mountains on the right bank, a flattening-out with a low shore line that I thought must be Cannobio. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- They have the peculiar flattening and thickening which marks the boxing man. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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