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Definition of Flatten out
1. Verb. Become flat or flatter. "The landscape flattened"
Generic synonyms: Change Form, Change Shape, Deform
Specialized synonyms: Splat, Press
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flatten Out
Literary usage of Flatten out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Detroit, a Chronicle of Its Progress, Its Industries, Its by Paul Leake (1912)
"JOSEPH RAILROAD—MANY SCHEMES flatten out IN THE FINANCIAL PANIC. Up to a certain
period in its development, the history of Detroit is necessarily that of ..."
2. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1807-1868/69] by Great Britain, George Kettilby Rickards (1844)
"... it shall not be Maker not to lawful for any Maker of Flint Glass, or any other
Person, to open |*tten out ""У or flatten out any Shade or Cylinder, ..."
3. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1901)
"flatten out, compare with the standard alloys, and get the per cent of silver in it.
... flatten out (the colour will be yellow), compare with the standard ..."
4. The Mechanical Engineer's Pocket-book: A Reference-book of Rules, Tables by William Kent (1902)
"A piece of lead will flatten out and resist compression till the last degree;
that is, the more it is compressed the greater becomes its resistance. ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1906)
"The ribs flatten out on the brachial valve before they do on the pedicle valve.
In other specimens the submarginal ridge of the concave (brachial) valve, ..."
6. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1885)
"I have seen straight ravines on boulder-clay slopes lined with washed-out blocks
that, if passed over by a gigantic roller, would flatten out into trains ..."
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