flatten
Make completely level
Flatten means to make flat or flatter—to compress, level, or smooth something out.
You flatten dough with a rolling pin, flatten a box for recycling, or flatten your hair against your head.
Extended uses follow naturally: a storm flattens crops, an army flattens a city, bad news flattens your mood.
To flatten someone can mean to knock them down or defeat them decisively: He flattened his opponent in the third round.
Firm bilateral compression
- condenseMake more compact
- compactTightly packed together
- squashFlatten by pressure
- squishCompress with pressure
crush · mash · pancake · deflate · reduce · thin · narrow · constrict
Winged flying vehicle
- evenUniform and level
- smoothWithout roughness or difficulty
- levelHorizontal or uniform position
- steamrollOverpower by sheer force
roll · press · grade · laminate · platen · roller · tamp · pave
Compress with force
- demolishDestroy completely
- trounceDefeat decisively
- annihilateDestroy completely, leaving nothing
- steamrollerCylindrical vehicle for paving
overwhelm · rout · decimate · destroy · obliterate · pulverize · wallop · clobber
Fragment gradually
- toppleCause to fall
- demolishDestroy completely
- knock-downDesigned for disassembly
- razeDestroy completely
level · tear-down · implode · cave-in · buckle · sink · subside · disintegrate
squeeze
Firm bilateral compression
squish · crush · mash · pancake · deflate · reduce · thin · narrow · constrict · shrink
plane
Winged flying vehicle
steamroll · roll · press · grade · laminate · platen · roller · tamp · pave · surface
crush
Compress with force
- demolishDestroy completely
- trounceDefeat decisively
- annihilateDestroy completely, leaving nothing
steamroller · overwhelm · rout · decimate · destroy · obliterate · pulverize · wallop · clobber · thrash
crumble
Fragment gradually
- toppleCause to fall
- demolishDestroy completely
- knock-downDesigned for disassembly
raze · level · tear-down · implode · cave-in · buckle · sink · subside · disintegrate
normalize
Make regular or standard
- denormalizeIntroduce redundancy deliberately
- simplifyMake less complex
- restructureRearrange fundamental organization
unnest · serialize · unroll · linearize · reduce · transform · convert · array · hierarchy · JSON
deaden
Diminish force or sensation
diminish · attenuate · suppress · neutralize · equalize · monotone · bland · lifeless · affect · inflection
- burdensburden, load, onus, obligations, weight
- collapsecollapse, cave in, cave-in, fall in, give way
- bring downbring down, take down, pull down, tear down, knock down
- distortionsdistort, distorts, deform, warp, twist
- straighten outunbend, untwist, uncurl, uncoil, unroll
- tenderizingtenderizer, mallet, meat mallet, meat tenderizer, pounding
- flatten the curveSpread outbreak over longer period
- flatten outMake smooth and even
- flattened outMade level throughout
- flatter oneselfHold inflated self-opinion
- flattening outMaking uniformly level
- flattening the curveSpreading outbreak's burden temporally
flatter, flattery, flattened, flattening, flattens, flattish, flatters, flattop, flatteners