Lexic.us

Definition of Flatten

1. Verb. Make flat or flatter. "Flatten your stomach with these exercises"

2. Verb. Become flat or flatter. "The landscape flattened"

3. Verb. Lower the pitch of (musical notes).

Definition of Flatten

1. v. t. To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.

2. v. i. To become or grow flat, even, depressed, dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch.

Definition of Flatten

1. Verb. (transitive) To make something flat or flatter. ¹

2. Verb. (reflexive) To press one's body tightly against a surface, such as a wall or floor, especially in order to avoid being seen or harmed. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To knock down or lay low. ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) To become flat or flatter. ¹

5. Verb. (intransitive) To be knocked down or laid low. ¹

6. Verb. (music) To lower by a semitone. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Flatten

1. to make or become flat [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flatten

flatmate flatmates flatness flatnesses flatour flatours flatpack flatpacks flats flatscape

flatscreen flatscreens flatshare flatshares flatted flatten (current term) flatten out flattenable flattened flattener

flatteners flattening flattenings flattens flatter flatter-chested flattered flatterer flatterers flattereth

Literary usage of Flatten

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"A plant or animal tbat lives on another ; hence a hanger-on, who fawns and flatten for the sake of his food. Pare aux Cerfe [deer parks]. ..."

2. The Great War by George Henry Allen, Henry C. Whitehead, French Ensor Chadwick (1919)
"The Deutscher flatten Verein. Premonitions of a German naval offensive. The battlefield Phases of the day battle. The night battle. Losses and results. ..."

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