flatten

[Flat·ten]

Make flat or flatter

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

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"


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.


Flatten

Flat"ten , 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. 2. To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit. 3. To make vapid or insipid; to render stale. 4. (Mus.) To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch. 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.

Flatten

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

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

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

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Usage Examples

There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.

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