flatten, Comic Muse compresses her lips. Those exports threaten to flatten producers elsewhere.

Three-quarters of China’s exported cars are gasoline-powered models that the domestic market no longer needs, said Bill Russo, an electric car consultant in Shanghai. Those exports threaten to flatten producers elsewhere.

So, and much so universally, the world of his dread and his unconscious worship wagged over Sir Willoughby Patterne and his change of brides, until the preparations for the festivities of the marriage flushed him in his county's eyes to something of the splendid glow he had worn on the great day of his majority. That was upon the season when two lovers met between the Swiss and Tyrol Alps over the Lake of Constance. Sitting beside them the Comic Muse is grave and sisterly. But taking a glance at the others of her late company of actors, she compresses her lips.







compressed conversations.

The adjective compressed has 4 meanings:

Meaning #1: pressed tightly together
Synonym: tight

Meaning #2: reduced in volume by pressure

Meaning #3: (biology) flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
Synonym: flat

Meaning #4: pressed into less space

flatten

/ˈflatn/

verb

1. 1.

   make or become flat or flatter.

   "her hair had been flattened by the storm"

   Similar:

   make/become flat

   make/become even

   make/become smooth

   smooth (out/off)

   level (out/off)

   even out

   iron

   steamroller

   compress

   press down

   crush

   squash

   compact

   trample

   tread

   tramp

   wear

   Opposite:

   roughen

   make uneven
2. 2.

   raze (a building or settlement) to the ground.

   "the entire town centre was flattened by the 500 lb bomb"

Thalia, muse of comedy, holding a comic mask - detail of “Muses Sarcophagus”, the nine Muses and their attributes; marble, early second century AD, Via Ostiense - Louvre