Associations to the word «Flattened»

Wiktionary

FLATTEN, verb. (transitive) To make something flat or flatter.
FLATTEN, verb. (reflexive) To press one's body tightly against a surface, such as a wall or floor, especially in order to avoid being seen or harmed.
FLATTEN, verb. (transitive) To knock down or lay low.
FLATTEN, verb. (intransitive) To become flat or flatter; to plateau.
FLATTEN, verb. (intransitive) To be knocked down or laid low.
FLATTEN, verb. (music) To lower by a semitone.
FLATTEN, verb. To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
FLATTEN, verb. (computer graphics) To combine (separate layers) into a single image.

Dictionary definition

FLATTEN, verb. Make flat or flatter; "flatten a road"; "flatten your stomach with these exercises".
FLATTEN, verb. Become flat or flatter; "The landscape flattened".
FLATTEN, verb. Lower the pitch of (musical notes).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats