Thesaurus: flatten

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1. a. To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.
2. a. To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.
3. a. To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
4. a. To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch.
5. v. i. To become or grow flat, even, depressed dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch.
6. v. make flat or flatter
7. v. become flat or flatter
8. v. lower the pitch of (musical notes)
9. 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. To become or grow flat, even, depressed dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch.
10. To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to letfall from the pitch. To flatten a sail (Naut.), to set it more nearlyfore-and-aft of the vessel.-- Flattening oven, in glass making, a heated chamber in which splitglass cylinders are flattened for window glass.
11. v:100 v. make flat or flatter v. become flat or flatter v. lower the pitch of (musical notes)