flatten vs wry

flatten

verb
  • To press one's body tightly against a surface, such as a wall or floor, especially in order to avoid being seen or harmed. 

  • To reduce (a data structure) to one that has fewer dimensions, e.g. a 2×2 array into a list of four elements. 

  • To knock down or lay low. 

  • To make something flat or flatter. 

  • To lower by a semitone. 

  • To combine (separate layers) into a single image. 

  • To be knocked down or laid low. 

  • To become flat or flatter; to plateau. 

  • To make vapid or insipid; to render stale. 

wry

verb
  • To twist or contort (the body, face, etc.). 

adj
  • Deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place. 

  • Turned away, contorted (of the face or body). 

  • Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic. 

  • Twisted, bent, crooked. 

noun
  • Distortion. 

How often have the words flatten and wry occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )