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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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.
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