0 to become level or cause something to become level -- (使)变平,把…弄平
1 to become level and thinner or to cause something to become level and thinner -- (使)变平坦;(使)变薄
He was immediately flattened by a single punch to the head.
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.
That tent is not secure, you know. The first gust of wind will flatten it.
A fight broke out and we had to grab Kevin to stop him flattening the other guy.
An alternative approach that avoids the use of an indexing operation works by building a perfect tree, and then flattening it into a list.
The space seems flattened and compressed, blurring the distinction between interior and exterior, between close and far away.
The second phase flattens the resulting tree of lists into one long list in the natural order.