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verb (used with object)
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to make flat.
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to knock down: The boxer flattened his opponent in the second round.
verb (used without object)
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to become flat.
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flatten out, Aeronautics. to fly into a horizontal position, as after a dive.
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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flatten definition
To remove structural information, especially to filter something with an implicit tree structure into a simple sequence of leaves; also tends to imply mapping to flat ASCII. "This code flattens an expression with parentheses into an equivalent canonical form."
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