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flatting out

flatting out is the present participle and gerund of flat out.

Meaning of flat out

Verb

flat out (third-person singular simple present flats out, present participle flatting out, simple past and past participle flatted out)

  1. (intransitive) To fail after a promising beginning; to disappoint expectations.
    • I see myself there warn't no sense in the tale, to chop square off that way before it come to anything, but I warn't going to say so, because I could see Tom was souring up pretty fast over the way it flatted out […] .1894, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad, 2015, Tom Sawyer Collection: All Four Books, Enhanced Media, page 413
  2. (archaic, transitive) Synonym of flatten out (to make flat)
    Synonyms:
    flatten out

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Questions about flatting out

What is flatting out the present participle and gerund of?
Flatting out is the present participle and gerund of flat out.

Words near flatting out in the dictionary

  1. flattie spider
  2. flattie spiders
  3. flatties
  4. flatting
  5. flatting down
  6. flatting out
  7. flattings
  8. flattish
  9. flattishly
  10. flattishness
  11. flattop

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