flatlined
past simple and past participle offlatline
flatline
verb[I]
informaluk/ˈflæt.laɪn/us/ˈflæt.laɪn/to be at alowleveland notincrease:
HavewidescreenTVpricesfinallyflatlined?
tostopbeingpopularorsuccessful:
Heractingcareerhas flatlined.
todie
Being or appearing similar or the same
- a passing resemblanceidiom
- align
- aligned
- be in good companyidiom
- be in the same ballparkidiom
- be nothing/not much/very little in itidiom
- correspond
- entrainment
- equal
- equalization
- even(something)out
- flatlining
- homologous
- match
- overlap
- overlapping
- parallel
- passing
- placeless
- placelessness
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Unsuccessful (people and things)
Death and dying
Examplesofflatlined
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They faced the problem of ever-rising operation cost, butflatlinedattendance.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Cliff then learns that she hadflatlinedtwo nights ago, but was brought back.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Some consider one who hasflatlinedto be clinically dead, regardless of eventual resuscitation or lack thereof, whereas others insist that one is alive until the moment of brain death.
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