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Flatten   /flˈætən/   Listen
Flatten

verb
(past & past part. flattened; pres. part. flattening)
1.
Make flat or flatter.  "Flatten your stomach with these exercises"
2.
Become flat or flatter.  Synonym: flatten out.
3.
Lower the pitch of (musical notes).  Synonym: drop.



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"Flatten" Quotes from Famous Books



... to a soft ball; set off; add two ounces glucose; set on, stir easy until it commences to boil, then pour out, let get three-fourths cold, and stir it until it turns into a cream. Then work into two tablespoons vanilla, line a pan with wax paper, flatten the batch in it, and mark it in squares. Set aside two ...
— One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed • C. A. Bogardus

... sea lay as smooth as within the harbour. The wind blew steadily off the shore, so that, close-hauled, one might fetch up or down Channel with equal ease. The girl began to flatten the sails, and asked her companion to bear a hand. Their hands met over a rope, and the man noted with surprise that the girl's was feverishly hot. Then she brought the boat's nose round to the eastward and, heeling gently over ...
— Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts • A. T. Quiller-Couch

... rehearse the inner life of everybody that has ever lived would be no rational endeavour. Instead of lifting the historian above the world and making him the most consummate of creatures, it would flatten his mind out into a passive after-image of diffuse existence, with all its horrible blindness, strain, and monotony. Reason is not come to repeat the universe but to fulfil it. Besides, a complete ...
— The Life of Reason • George Santayana

... Flatten out, Major," I shouted, and he dropped to the ground. I did not know the extent of his injuries at that time but I did know that he was courting death every ...
— "And they thought we wouldn't fight" • Floyd Gibbons

... spit in a circle, just at the mouth of the dug-out which most of the half-section inhabit, and flood with tobacco-stained saliva the place where they put their hands and feet when they flatten themselves to ...
— Under Fire - The Story of a Squad • Henri Barbusse


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