flatten

About 0.77 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To make something flat or flatter.

   As there was a lot of damage, we chose the heavy roller to flatten the pitch.

2. 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.
3. verb To knock down or lay low.

   The prize fighter quickly flattened his challenger.

4. verb To become flat or flatter; to plateau.

   Prices have flattened out.

5. verb To be knocked down or laid low.
6. verb To lower by a semitone.
7. verb To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
8. verb To reduce (a data structure) to one that has fewer dimensions, e.g. a 2×2 array into a list of four elements.

Similar words

flatten out drop raze kill shave stabilise stabilize grade dough flat

Often followed by

the out it and them a your each with

Word family

flattened flattener flatteners flattening flattens