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• v  make flat or flatter
• v  become flat or flatter
  The landscape flattened
• v  lower the pitch of (musical notes)
• s  having been flattened

• Rescuers were able to pull a child alive from the wreckage 24 hours after it was flattened by a powerful earthquake which struck southern Italy.
• ClearRx bottles are not only upside down but also flattened out, so patients can read labels without rotating the package.
• The 70-year-old has kept vigil for the better part of a day after the school was flattened by the May 12 earthquake.

• flatten
• flatten out
• drop
• planate

• sharpen

News & Articles

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• The Macalope: The reviews are in!
  And iOS 7 is a dud! Yes, it’s another Apple colossafail, so feel free to rerun all those “Apple doomed” stories you … Wait, the reviews? Reviewing developer previews that aren’t due for general release for months is a thing the tech press is going to do now? Well, they practically try to review unreleased Apple hardware, too, so this is actually an improvement. “Flattened Affect” To read this ...
  June 20, 2013 - Macworld
• Bombs destroy police station in Libya's Benghazi
  BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Bombs flattened a police station in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Wednesday but there were no casualties as the building had been emptied for repairs following previous attacks, security officials said. The al-Hadaiq station in downtown Benghazi was completely destroyed by explosives at around 0300 a.m. (0100 GMT). The blast was so loud it could be heard ...
  June 19, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Any Global Warming Since 1978? Two Climate Experts Debate This
  Have global temperatures warmed, cooled or flattened? If so, by how much, since when, and how can we know? I have posed these questions to two highly credentialed climate scientists who have different views on this topic. Texas State Climatologist Dr. John Nielsen-Gammon, a Regents Professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University, will present a view that global temperatures have seen ...
  June 18, 2013 - Forbes

Quotes

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• Eric Wedge in MiamiHerald.com
  I thought he was pretty good early,said Cleveland manager Eric Wedge. "In the middle innings, it flattened out a little bit and pitches came over the middle of the plate."
• Frank Thomas in USA Today
  I've had my good days against him but over the whole haul, he's had the best of me,Thomas said. "Today a couple flattened out. That happens with knuckleball pitchers sometimes."
• Ian Botham in guardian.co.uk
  I gave him three official warnings,wrote Botham, "All of which he ignored, so the next time he started, I just flattened him. He went flying over a table and crash-landed on a group of Aussie rules footballers, spilling their drinks in the...