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    flattened
    [ adj ]
    having been flattened
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    Flatten \Flat"ten\ (fl[a^]t"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.

    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.

    flattened \flattened\ adj.
    1. shaped like a thin sheet.

    Syn: planate.
    [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

    2. (Biol) flattened laterally along the whole length e.g.
    certain leafstalks or flatfishes.

    Syn: compressed, flat.
    [WordNet 1.5]

    1. They dropped two 1,500-pound bombs that flattened the two-story villa occupied by the guerrillas.
    2. Stock prices hovered in a narrow range today as the market's July rally flattened out.
    3. Santo Tomas is the hospital nearest the bombed and burned-out Panamanian Defense Forces headquarters, flattened on the first night of the invasion.
    4. The market has flattened since Hilton Hotels Corp. opened a 2,000room hotel in Laughlin last August, and has been somewhat affected by a slowing of regional tourism.
    5. The middle line has been weeded out, structures have been flattened, head counts have been decreased.
    6. An explosion today flattened a military barracks and tore through nearby homes, killing 11 people and injuring 22, police said.
    7. While overall growth in the beer business has flattened out, light beer sales remain effervescent.
    8. In the 1970s, the communist authorities had decided that Horno, which is over 600 years old, should be flattened to make way for the mining of brown coal.
    9. Some GE managers, though, find the challenge of flattened management exhilarating.
    10. At least 18 houses were flattened while the roofs of 30 more houses were blown off, and 25 families were evacuated to schools in the area.
    11. "I've been waiting four months for a new home," said 61-year-old Juana Sofia Lubierez, whose family of 11 is sharing a one-room house built by the government as temporary shelter after her eight-room house was flattened.
    12. Six Raleigh residents, including four juveniles, were charged Monday with looting from a K mart that was flattened by the storm.
    13. Every Kafka frisson is flattened by declamatory literalism; every dark Kafka joke is trapped in the headlights of the film's stagy overemphasis. Boxing Helena is another potentially startling idea boxed into banality by the mise-en-scene.
    14. The grenades fired by both sides flattened houses in Paynesville, a suburb eight miles northeast of Monrovia, according to reports from travelers to the area.
    15. A truck backing up to a toy-store loading dock flattened a cardboard box today, killing a homeless man inside, police said.
    16. In Matamoros just across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, the storm felled trees, downed power lines and flattened dozens of tin shack homes on the evacuated beachfront.
    17. "We can't say at this moment that it would have flattened so many blocks, but we have to assume the worst," Vernon said.
    18. In areas where the freeway made giant concrete sandwiches of itself lie cars that police say have been flattened into foot-thick slabs.
    19. Smith said the tires of mining company employees' cars were flattened by spikes in the road when they drove to Lovelock to report the theft Sunday morning.
    20. The elephants, found on uninhabited Tekong island last week, had left a trail of uprooted trees and flattened grass.
    21. Animal resin is applied, then gauzy cotton, and the painting is pulled off. Upside down on a table in a room set aside for the restoration project, it is flattened under weights.
    22. However, Burlington Northern, which benefited from strong coal and grain shipments in the 1989 fourth quarter, said its traffic levels flattened in the latest quarter.
    23. They also leveled and flattened the surface 300 feet wide on either side of the 300-foot-wide landing strip, in effect making the runway 900 feet wide.
    24. Already, the number of prescriptions written each year has flattened out, so a growing number of drug companies are chasing a static amount of business.
    25. Waste heaps are being flattened to make way for high-technology factories the government hopes will cut unemployment, running at more than 20% in some towns.
    26. By trial and error in raising and lowering humidity, using tissue and waxed paper between sheets, Iskander separated, then flattened, some of the pages.
    27. In terms of unit shipments, portables represented 14.5 per cent of the 10.3m PCs shipped in 1993. Growth of the portable PC market has flattened since the 'boom' years between 1990 and 1992.
    28. The truck's cab was crushed in the accident and the rear, where most of the soldiers were sitting, was flattened, investigators said.
    29. They flattened trees and hacked open the fuselage.
    30. "That, plus the drop in personal tax rates, will help keep consumer-spending growth alive in 1987, when otherwise it might have flattened out."
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