flatten

Definitions

1. 1.To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.
2. 2.To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
3. 3.(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.
4. 4.To become or grow flat, even, depressed dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is to throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit called?
• What is to make vapid or insipid; to render stale called?
• What is to become or grow flat, even, depressed dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch called?