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as in to smooth
to make free from breaks, curves, or bumps
flattened out the wrinkled paper before attempting to trace the pattern
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as in to bury
to defeat by a large margin
if you don't understand the rules, you're going to get flattened when you try to play
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Recent Examples of flatten
As part of the five-day office mandate, Amazon also set a goal to flatten its corporate structure by having fewer managers in each organization.
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Annie Palmer, CNBC, 29 Jan. 2025
The front passenger side door had been torn off, the windshield and windows were shattered and at least one tire was flattened.
—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2025
As of Monday, the Palisades Fire, which first swept the Palisades area on Jan. 7, has destroyed more than 6,000 structures and killed at least 10 people; whereas the Eaton Fire has flattened more than 9,400 structures and killed 17 people.
—Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2025
The Eaton fire was fueled by intense winds that pushed flames from Eaton Canyon west into neighborhoods across Altadena, flattening larger swaths of the community.
—Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2025
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The formula is packed with keratins and proteins to fortify the nails, while key ingredients like cellulose, silica, celery seed extract, and camellia oil help smooth and strengthen.—
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The two that were closed – runways 4/22 and 15/33 – are shorter than the main runway and typically used during busier periods at the airport to alleviate congestion and smooth the flow of traffic into and out of DCA.—
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Matte, the State Archives administrator, has spent his career buried in these aging paper documents.—
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Knowledge workers routinely report spending 2.5 hours daily searching for information buried in email threads and disorganized files.—
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The Wolfpack overcame 17 turnovers and a disadvantage in paint points with a nearly perfect performance from the free-throw line and better-than-usual 3-point shooting.—
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To advance, Sporting must overcome a 1-0 deficit from the first leg.—
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On a 3-2 count, the Rangers’ Jack Leiter threw Lee a payoff slider down in the dirt.—
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Six days later, the couple lured a man in his 50s to the hotel room to engage in prostitution with Lebron, but after the man handed over the cash and undressed, Lebron threw bleach in his face and the duo beat him for several hours before stealing his phone, wallet and car keys.—
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Eleven of his assists that season came from the right, and nine were whipped across in that fashion.—
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Miller was struck in the temple, whipping his hat off his head.—
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The Palestinians who lived there had no homes because their homes were bombed (that is another story for another time).—
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But the most dangerous favor, by far, would be U.S. assistance in bombing Iranian nuclear sites — or even threatening to do so in a new campaign of diplomatic coercion.—
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The horrendous Pacific Palisades fire annihilated huge swaths of the surrounding community and burned some of the Getty Villa’s grounds.—
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Fans of the 49ers will have to recognize that the Eagles just annihilated an opponent in the Chiefs that has been the bane of their existence since Shanahan arrived.—
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New Town dominated a clash of two of Baltimore County's top teams with a smothering defense that made life rough on Dulaney.—
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No surprise, in that context, that the Bell Centre crowd was ready to smother him in adoration.—
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“Flatten.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flatten. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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