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Flat"ten (flăt"t'n), 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.
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2. To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.
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3. To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
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4. (Mus.) To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch.
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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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Flat"ten, v. i. To become or grow flat, even, depressed, dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch.
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