'Flatten' definitions:
Definition of 'flatten'
From: WordNet
verb
Make flat or flatter; "flatten a road"; "flatten your stomach with these exercises"
verb
Become flat or flatter; "The landscape flattened" [syn: flatten, flatten out]
verb
Definition of 'Flatten'
From: GCIDE
- Flatten \Flat"ten\, v. i. To become or grow flat, even, depressed, dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Flatten'
From: GCIDE
- Flatten \Flat"ten\ (fl[a^]t"t'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flattened; p. pr. & vb. n. Flattening.] [From Flat, a.]
- 1. To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To make vapid or insipid; to render stale. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Mus.) To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch. [1913 Webster]
- To flatten a sail (Naut.), to set it more nearly fore-and-aft of the vessel.
- Flattening oven, in glass making, a heated chamber in which split glass cylinders are flattened for window glass. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'flatten'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- align,
- assimilate to,
- balance,
- beat down,
- bend,
- blow down,
- break,
- break down,
- bring down,
- bulldoze,
- burn down,
- cast down,
- chop down,
- conquer,
- crush,
- cut down,
- dab,
- damp,
- demolish,
- disentangle,
- down,
- drag,
- dress,
- dub,
- equalize,
- equilibrize,
- even,
- extend,
- fell,
- floor,
- flush,
- grade,
- grease,
- ground,
- harmonize,
- harrow,
- homogenize,
- humble,
- knock,
- knock down,
- knock out,
- knock over,
- lay,
- lay down,
- lay flat,
- lay level,
- lay low,
- lay out,
- level,
- lubricate,
- make uniform,
- master,
- mow,
- mow down,
- normalize,
- oil,
- override,
- plane,
- planish,
- plaster,
- press out,
- prostrate,
- pull down,
- put down,
- put straight,
- quell,
- rase,
- raze,
- rectify,
- reduce,
- regularize,
- regulate,
- ride down,
- roll,
- roll flat,
- set straight,
- shave,
- sit up,
- smash,
- smooth,
- smooth down,
- smooth out,
- smoothen,
- stabilize,
- stand up,
- standardize,
- steamroll,
- steamroller,
- stereotype,
- straighten,
- straighten out,
- straighten up,
- subdue,
- subjugate,
- suppress,
- symmetrize,
- take down,
- tear down,
- throw down,
- trample down,
- trample underfoot,
- tread underfoot,
- unbend,
- uncurl,
- uniformize,
- unkink,
- unsnarl,
- vanquish