flat
/ˈflæt/ verb C2- To make a flat call; to call without raising.
- To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
- To fall from the pitch.
- To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
- To make flat; to flatten; to level.
- To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
He/she/it flats · Past flatted · Past participle flatted · -ing form flatting
Verb forms
- Base form
- flat
- He/she/it
- flats
- Past
- flatted
- Past participle
- flatted
- -ing form
- flatting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“I don’t mind floating down when there’s two or three of us in the flat and we can sit up.
To Anne in particular things seemed fearfully flat, stale, and unprofitable after the goblet of excitement she had been sipping for weeks.
A FOX invited a Crane to supper and provided nothing for his entertainment but some soup made of pulse, which was poured out into a broad flat stone dish.
Not a tree nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat country that reached to the edge of the sky in all directions.
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