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flattened

adj.
B2 Upper Intermediate US //ˈfɫætənd// UK //flˈætənd// flat·tened

adj. made flat, level, or smooth. You use this to describe something that was once tall or uneven but has been pressed down.

adj. having been made flat or level by pressure or force. Often functions as a participial adjective describing the state of an object after an impact or intentional smoothing.


SIMPLE

The heavy rain left the grass flattened against the ground.

CONTEXTUAL

After the storm, we found several flattened cardboard boxes in the middle of the street.

COMPLEX

The landscape was a series of flattened hills and valleys, smoothed over centuries by the relentless movement of glacial ice during the last great cooling period.

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Often used predicatively after linking verbs like 'look' or 'remain', or attributively before a noun.

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