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Flatten \Flat"ten\, v. i.
To become or grow flat, even, depressed, dull, vapid,
spiritless, or depressed below pitch.
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Flatten \Flat"ten\ (fl[a^]t"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.
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2. To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate;
hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.
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3. To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
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4. (Mus.) To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less
sharp; to let fall from the pitch.
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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.
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flatten
v 1: make flat or flatter; "flatten a road"; "flatten your
stomach with these exercises"

2: become flat or flatter; "The landscape flattened" [syn:
flatten, flatten out]

3: lower the pitch of (musical notes) [syn: flatten, drop]
[ant: sharpen]
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flatten

To remove structural information, especially to filter
something with an implicit tree structure into a simple
sequence of leaves; also tends to imply mapping to
flat ASCII. "This code flattens an expression with
parentheses into an equivalent canonical form."

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flatten
vt.

[common] To remove structural information, esp. to filter something
with an implicit tree structure into a simple sequence of leaves;
also tends to imply mapping to flat-ASCII. "This code flattens an
expression with parentheses into an equivalent canonical form."

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flatten

abflachen
flatten

auswellen; auswalken [cook.]
flatten

planieren; verflachen
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108 Moby Thesaurus words for "flatten":
align, assimilate to, balance, beat down, bend, blow down, break,
break down, bring down, bulldoze, burn down, cast down, chop down,
conquer, crush, cut down, dab, damp, demolish, disentangle, down,
drag, dress, dub, equalize, equilibrize, even, extend, fell, floor,
flush, grade, grease, ground, harmonize, harrow, homogenize,
humble, knock, knock down, knock out, knock over, lay, lay down,
lay flat, lay level, lay low, lay out, level, lubricate,
make uniform, master, mow, mow down, normalize, oil, override,
plane, planish, plaster, press out, prostrate, pull down, put down,
put straight, quell, rase, raze, rectify, reduce, regularize,
regulate, ride down, roll, roll flat, set straight, shave, sit up,
smash, smooth, smooth down, smooth out, smoothen, stabilize,
stand up, standardize, steamroll, steamroller, stereotype,
straighten, straighten out, straighten up, subdue, subjugate,
suppress, symmetrize, take down, tear down, throw down,
trample down, trample underfoot, tread underfoot, unbend, uncurl,
uniformize, unkink, unsnarl, vanquish



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