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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of unflatten.
  • adjective Not flattened.

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Examples

  • I lashed the unflattened end to the shaft of the oar, and then tried using glue to fix the flat section to the spoon of the oar.

    Rowing the ATLANTIC Roz Savage 2009

  • I lashed the unflattened end to the shaft of the oar, and then tried using glue to fix the flat section to the spoon of the oar.

    Rowing the ATLANTIC Roz Savage 2009

  • Nor when I proceeded to jump out and take pictures of said cute, unflattened reptile.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2007

  • But I am equally certain that it is not historically inevitable that the rest of the world will become flat or that the already flat parts of the world won't get unflattened by war, economic disruption, or politics.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Bill Kerr 2006

  • But I am equally certain that it is not historically inevitable that the rest of the world will become flat or that the already flat parts of the world won't get unflattened by war, economic disruption, or politics.

    globalisation Bill Kerr 2006

  • I dug it out of the wood with my knife -- so you see I got it almost unflattened.

    The Treasure-Train 1908

  • Their distance from the centre, compared with the radius of the unflattened circle, is called the excentricity.

    Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895

  • If there is to be much finishing, the grain had better be crushed, but for large books that are to have only a small amount of finishing, the grain is best left unflattened.

    Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians Douglas Cockerell 1894

  • The mode allows objects to which transparency has been applied within QuarkXPress to remain unflattened in the final PDF output says Quark.

    Macworld UK News 2010

  • When they flattened the feathers in whiskered and crested auklets, they found the birds were 2.5 times more likely to bump their heads than those with unflattened feathers, and the birds with longer crests were more affected than those with naturally shorter crests.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

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