avslagen — meaning in English

English meaning

• flat adj Level and even, with no slope, bumps, or curves.
• stale adj No longer fresh; dried out or gone off, especially food or drink.

Senses

avslagen is used for these senses in English:

• flat (figurative) Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.
• flat (of a carbonated drink) With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
• stale No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; clichéd, hackneyed, dated.

flat — full definition

1. adj Level and even, with no slope, bumps, or curves.
2. adj Unchanging or without variation, especially in sales, tone, or energy.
3. adj Of a tyre, deflated, usually because of a puncture.
4. adj Of a drink, having lost its fizz.
5. adj In music, lower in pitch than the correct note, or (of a written note) lowered by a semitone.

stale — full definition

1. adj No longer fresh; dried out or gone off, especially food or drink.
2. adj No longer fresh or interesting; overused, clichéd, or dated.
3. verb To become, or make, stale; to lose freshness or interest.

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