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flatten 音標拼音: [fl'ætən] vt. 弄平,打倒,使失去光澤;
vi. 變單調,變平 弄平,打倒,使失去光澤;變單調,變平 flatten v 1: make flat or flatter; " flatten a road"; " flatten your stomach with these exercises" 2: become flat or flatter; " The landscape flattened" [ synonym: { flatten}, { flatten out}] 3: lower the pitch of ( musical notes) [ synonym: { flatten}, { drop}] [ ant: { sharpen}] Flatten \ Flat" ten\, v. i. To become or grow flat, even, depressed, dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch. [ 1913 Webster]
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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To make vapid or insipid; to render stale. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Mus.) To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch. [ 1913 Webster] { 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. [ 1913 Webster] 108 Moby Thesaurus words for " flatten": align, assimilate to, balance, beat down, bend, blow down, break, break down, bring down, bulldoze, burn down, cast down, chop down, conquer, crush, cut down, dab, damp, demolish, disentangle, down, drag, dress, dub, equalize, equilibrize, even, extend, fell, floor, flush, grade, grease, ground, harmonize, harrow, homogenize, humble, knock, knock down, knock out, knock over, lay, lay down, lay flat, lay level, lay low, lay out, level, lubricate, make uniform, master, mow, mow down, normalize, oil, override, plane, planish, plaster, press out, prostrate, pull down, put down, put straight, quell, rase, raze, rectify, reduce, regularize, regulate, ride down, roll, roll flat, set straight, shave, sit up, smash, smooth, smooth down, smooth out, smoothen, stabilize, stand up, standardize, steamroll, steamroller, stereotype, straighten, straighten out, straighten up, subdue, subjugate, suppress, symmetrize, take down, tear down, throw down, trample down, trample underfoot, tread underfoot, unbend, uncurl, uniformize, unkink, unsnarl, vanquish |
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