Managed by an American company, the mine has flattened five mountains, displaced thousands of people and polluted with cyanide the water throughout the entire region.

Gestionada por una empresa norteamericana, la mina ha allanado cinco montañas, desplazado a miles de personas y contaminado con cianuro el agua de toda la región.

to flatten

achatar [achatando · achatado] {vb}

to flatten

achatar [achatando · achatado] {v.t.}

to flatten(also: to break, to tread)

chafar [chafando · chafado] {v.t.} (aplastar)

to flatten(also: to compact, to crush)

compactar [compactando · compactado] {v.t.}

to flatten

descachapar {v.t.} [Ven.] [coll.] (persona)

to flatten [flattened · flattened] {transitive verb}

to flatten

achurrar {v.t.}

to flatten(also: to level)

enrasar {v.t.}

to flatten(also: to knock down, to down, to get down, to poleax)

tumbar [tumbando · tumbado] {vb}

to flatten(also: to bash in, to kick in, to knock down, to bring down)

echar abajo {vb}

to flatten(also: to smash in, to knock down, to beat down, to blow down)

tirar abajo {vb}

to flatten(also: to obliterate, to plough through, to plow through, to waste)

arrasar [arrasando · arrasado] {vb}

It flattened most of our forests, for the first time.

Arrasó la mayoría de nuestros bosques por primera vez.

When he was colonel, he was the person who flattened and raped Vukovar before Milosevic promoted him to general for his valour.

Cuando era coronel, él fue quien arrasó y pilló a Vukovar antes de que Milosevic le ascendiera a general por su valor.

Firstly, at the beginning of 1999, NATO, with the participation of most Member States of the European Union, flattened Kosovo with bombs in the name of freedom.

Primero: a principios de 1999, la OTAN, con la participación de la mayoría de los Estados miembros, arrasó Kosovo con sus bombardeos en nombre de la libertad.

to flatten(also: to flat)

bajar de tono {vb} [mus.]

to flatten [flattened · flattened] {intransitive verb}

to flatten

allanarse {vb}

to flatten

volverse más llano {vb}

to flatten

volverse más monótono {vb}

CONTEXT EXAMPLES

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We saw them in Yugoslavia, together with their friends on this side of the Atlantic, killing civilians, flattening infrastructures and destroying the environment.

Los hemos visto en Yugoslavia, junto con sus amigos de este lado del Atlántico, matando a civiles, destruyendo infraestructuras, destruyendo el medio ambiente.

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