FLATTENED

planate, flattened

(adjective) having been flattened

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

flattened (comparative more flattened, superlative most flattened)

Made flat by something.

Verb

flattened

simple past tense and past participle of flatten

The tree fell on the car and flattened it.

Source: Wiktionary


FLATTEN

Flat"ten, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flattened; p. pr. & vb. n. Flattening.] Etym: [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.)

Definition: 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.

Flat"ten, v. i.

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

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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