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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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