flatten

Từ điển Việt Anh Việt 4in1 - English Vietnamese 4 in 1 Dictionary

flat‧ten /ˈflætn/ BrE AmE verb
[Word Family: noun: ↑flat, ↑flatness; adverb: ↑flat, ↑flatly; verb: ↑flatten; adjective: ↑flat]
1. (also flatten out) [intransitive and transitive] to make something flat or flatter, or to become flat or flatter:
Use a rolling pin to flatten the dough.
The land flattened out as we neared the coast.
2. [transitive] to destroy a building or town by knocking it down, bombing it etc SYN level:
Hundreds of homes were flattened by the tornado.
3. flatten yourself against something to press your body against something:
I flattened myself against the wall.
4. [transitive] informal to defeat someone completely and easily in a game, argument etc:
We flattened them 6–0.
5. [transitive] informal to hit someone very hard
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THESAURUS
▪ destroy to damage something so badly that it no longer exists or cannot be used or repaired: The earthquake almost completely destroyed the city. | The twin towers were destroyed in a terrorist attack.
▪ devastate to damage a large area very badly and destroy many things in it: Allied bombings in 1943 devastated the city. | The country’s economy has been devastated by years of fighting.
▪ demolish to completely destroy a building, either deliberately or by accident: The original 15th century house was demolished in Victorian times. | The plane crashed into a suburb of Paris, demolishing several buildings.
▪ flatten to destroy a building or town by knocking it down, bombing it etc, so that nothing is left standing: The town centre was flattened by a 500 lb bomb.
▪ wreck to deliberately damage something very badly, especially a room or building: The toilets had been wrecked by vandals. | They just wrecked the place.
▪ trash informal to deliberately destroy a lot of the things in a room, house etc: Apparently, he trashed his hotel room while on drugs.
▪ obliterate formal to destroy a place so completely that nothing remains: The nuclear blast obliterated most of Hiroshima.
▪ reduce something to ruins/rubble/ashes to destroy a building or town completely: The town was reduced to rubble in the First World War.
▪ ruin to spoil something completely, so that it cannot be used or enjoyed: Fungus may ruin the crop. | The new houses will ruin the view.

flattenhu

◎	['flætn]
※	ngoại động từ
	■	dát mỏng, dát phẳng, làm bẹt ra, san phẳng
	■	đánh ngã sóng soài
※	nội động từ
	■	trở nên phẳng bẹt
	■	trở nên yên tĩnh, trở nên yên lặng, dịu lại
		☆	storm has flattened
			bão đã ngớt
	■	bay hơi, bay mùi, hả
		☆	this beer has flattened
			bia đã hả hơi
	〆	to flatten out
		✓	trải ra, trải phẳng
		✓	cho (máy bay) bay song song với mặt đất

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  drop, flatten out