flattened

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.shaped like a thin sheet.

Syn: planate. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

2.(Biol) flattened laterally along the whole length e.g. certain leafstalks or flatfishes.

Syn: compressed, flat. [WordNet 1.5]

1.To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane. [1913 Webster]

2.To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit. [1913 Webster]

3.To make vapid or insipid; to render stale. [1913 Webster]

4.(Mus.) To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]