Flatten vs Flotten - What's the difference?
flatten | flotten |
To make something flat or flatter.
(reflexive) To press one's body tightly against a surface, such as a wall or floor, especially in order to avoid being seen or harmed.
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To knock down or lay low.
To become flat or flatter; to plateau.
To be knocked down or laid low.
(music) To lower by a semitone.
To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
(computer graphics) To combine (separate layers) into a single image.
As a noun flatten
is .As an adjective flotten is
(obsolete|of milk) skimmed.flatten
English
Verb
(en verb)- As there was a lot of damage, we chose the heavy roller to flatten the pitch.
- Mary would flatten the dough before rolling it into pretzels.
- With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hob-house Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.
- The prize fighter quickly flattened his challenger.
- Prices have flattened out .