Flattened Mummies Of Mammal Ancestors Found 250 Million Years After They Limped Through Extinction Event

The meaning of FLATTEN is to make flat. How to use flatten in a sentence.

FLATTENED definition: 1. past simple and past participle of flatten 2. to become level or cause something to become…. Learn more.

Definition of flatten verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. [intransitive, transitive] to become flat or flatter; to make something flat or flatter. The cookies will flatten slightly while cooking. …

The dough flattened smoothly/easily. The land flattens (out) as you approach the coast.

If you flatten something or if it flattens, it becomes flat or flatter. He carefully flattened the wrappers and put them between the leaves of his book.

to (cause to) become flat: [~ (+ out) + object] Flatten (out) the pizza dough with your hands. [~ (+ out)] They flattened (out) against the wall and strained to see who was coming.

When you flatten something, you crush it or level it out. If the recycling bin is getting full, you should probably flatten all those cans you're adding to it.

1. To make flat or flatter. 2. To knock down; lay low: The boxer was flattened with one punch.

The whole area was flattened in the bombing raid - not a building was left standing. After a few hundred yards, you come to an area where the ground flattens out.

FLATTEN definition: to make flat. See examples of flatten used in a sentence.