Flatten

Definition: Flatten

Flatten

Verb

1. Make flat or flatter; "flatten a road", "flatten your stomach with these exercises".

2. Become flat or flatter; "The landscape flattened".

3. Lower the pitch of (musical notes).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "flatten" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Computing

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Transportation

Synonyms: Flatten

Flatness

Verb: render flat, flatten; level.

Horizontality

Render horizontal; Adjective: lay down, lay out; level, flatten; prostrate, knock down, floor, fell.

Crosswords: Flatten

Flatten em (Gettin' Jiggy Wit It; performing artist: Will Smith)

Books

• Flatten Your Stomach: For Men (reference)

• How to Flatten Your Tush (reference)

• New Seven Day Program: Flatten Your Stomach for Women and Men (reference)

• The Crunch: The Latest, Most Effective Way to Flatten Your Stomach (reference)

• Three Simple Steps to Flatten Your Belly (reference)

  (more book examples)

Tank armor Production. Brake presses flatten each piece of tank armor plate after flame-cutting and before machining. Every plane must be perfectly flat to ensure a tight fit in the tank. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Farrell, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.

Roller constructed by Rehabilitation Administration client which is used to flatten soil between cotton and help in keeping moisture in the land. Near Batesville, Arkansas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Expressions using "flatten": flatten out ♦ flatten with bombs ♦ To flatten a sail. Additional references.

Albanian

shtrij përdhe, shkatërroj (bash up, blow away, break to pieces, bust up, cast down, consume, crock, dash, decimate, defeat, demolish, depauperate, depredate, destroy, do for, do in, eat, erode, explode, gut, kill, level, rase, ravage, raze, rout, ruin, shake down, shatter, sink, smash, smite, subvert, take away, tear to pieces, throw down, trample down, unbuild, vandalize, wreck, zap), sheshoj (iron out, level, plaster, press out, smooth, smooth out), sheshohem, rrafshoj (equalize, even, flush, level), rrafshohem, palos (double, double up, fold, furl, turn back, turn down), dystoj, dystohet (flatten out). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مهد (bed, cradle, even, flat, grade, level, pave, plane, roll, smooth), ‏تسطح, ‏سوى (accommodate, adjust, but, compose, compound, dispose, equalize, equate, even, normalize, patch, regularize, settle, smooth, straighten), ‏سحق (bash, batter, beat, beating, bow, break, crack, crumple, crunch, crush, grind, jam, levigate, mow, overwhelm, pound, pounding, powder, pulverization, pulverize, put down, quash, reduce, run over smth., scotch, slam, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, steam roller, suppress, sweep, trample, tread, triturate, trituration), ‏سطح (face, flat, flatness, press, prostrate, roof, spread, superficies, surface), ‏طار أفقيا (flatten out), ‏جعله مسطحا, ‏دمر (annihilate, blast, break down, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, immolate, overthrow, prey, pull down, pulverize, ravage, ruin, smash, subvert, unbuild, wrack, wreck). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ставам неинтересен, ставам плосък, сплесквам (jump, telescope), обърквам (abash, addle, baffle, bedevil, befuddle, bewilder, complicate, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, disjoint, dislocate, distract, embarrass, embroil, flummox, fluster, foil, fuddle, gravel, jumble, maze, mess about, mess around, mess up, muddle, muff, muss, nonplus, obfuscate, overwhelm, perplex, pose, put off, put out, puzzle, sew up, snarl, stonker, throw out, tumble, vex, wilder), матирам (frost, mat, mate), правя равен, правя гладък, правя плосък, потискам (clamp, depress, domineer, drive back, get down, grind, gripe, inhibit, mope, muffle, oppress, persecute, pocket, press in, prey, quell, quench, repress, suppress, throttle, tyrannize, weigh down), повалям (blow down, bring down, deck, drop, fell, fling down, floor, hew, knock down, lay low, lay out, level, overthrow, pole-ax, precipitate, prostrate, run down, shoot down, stretch out, strike, strike down, throw down, tumble down, zap), понижавам (abase, abate, degrade, demote, disgrace, impair, lower, reduce, relegate, sing flat, whittle away), изравнявам се (equalize, even), изравнявам (balance, dress, equalize, even, flush, level, plane, roll), изветрявам (die, volatilize). (various references)

Chinese 

铺平 (flattened, Flattening), 打倒 , 弄平 . (various references)

Czech

zploštit se (flatten out), vyrovnat se (align, Aline, compensate, countervail), vyrovnat (balance, clear off, compound, eke, eke out, equalize, even, even out, even up, justify, level up, meet, quit, settle, settle up, smooth out, stack up, steady), uhladit (polish, sleek, slick, smooth), srovnat (dress, parallel, patch up, straighten, straighten out), rozdrtit (annihilate, crush, demolish, devastate, powder, vanquish, whack). (various references)

Danish

glatte (equalize, sleek, slick, smooth), brase et sejl, bakke et sejl. (various references)

Dutch

vlakmaken (equalize, smooth), bak staan, afnemen (abate, decline, diminish, wane). (various references)

Finnish

tasoittaa (equalize, smooth), silittää (iron, press, smooth smooth down, stroke), olla vastatuulessa, litistää (squash). (various references)

French

aplatir (beat smth. flat). (various references)

German

planieren (bulldoze, level, level off, level out, planish, to flatten). (various references)

Greek 

ισοπεδώνω (raze), ισοπεδώ (level), λειαίνω (abrade, sleek, slick, smooth). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשטח (spread, stretch out), לפחוס (compress, squash), להשתטח (fall flat, prostrate), לרדד (shallow). (various references)

Hungarian

lelapul (flatten out, to cower), lapít (to play dead, to play possum, to sit tight). (various references)

Indonesian

menggiling (grind, mill, roll), memaparkan (relate, roll out), memapakkan (smoothen), gusur (condemn, drag, haul). (various references)

Italian

spianare (level, smooth), levigare (smooth, sand). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

突き崩す (to break through, to crush, to flatten), 突崩す (to break through, to crush, to flatten), 押し潰す (to crush, to flatten, to squash). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おしつぶす (to crush, to flatten, to squash), つきくずす (to break through, to crush, to flatten). (various references)

Korean 

평평하게 하십시요. (various references)

Manx

meayllaghey (bald, bare, damp, depilate, depilation, put back), lhiannaghey (flake, laminate, lamination, mangle, mangling, press), lheanaghey (beat out, branch out, broadening, dilate, dilation, expand, expansion, extend, extension, flare, sprain, widen, widening), aachormaghey. (various references)

Norwegian

gjøre flat. (various references)

Pig Latin

attenflay.(various references)

Portuguese

ficar com o pano às costas, tornar insípido (pall), polir (polish, smooth, planish, sleek), pôr sobre, pôr o pano sobre, nivelar (level), igualar (level), enfraquecer (abate, attenuate, decay, diminish, enervate, extenuate, fade, fail, faint, flag, impair, impoverish, jade, languish, peak, pine, rust, sap, slacken, undermine, waste, weaken), desanimar (chill, collapse, damp, deject, depress, despair, despond, discount, discourage, dishearten, dismay, dispirit, drench, quail, throw cold water on, unman, unnerve), dar por davante, aplainar (adz, adze, facilitate, level, plane, planish, trim), alisar (smooth, level, sleek), achatar (convince, squash), abrandar (soften). (various references)

Romanian

face insipid, se demoraliza, descuraja (discourage), deveni insipid, deveni plat, lamina (batter, foliate, mill, roll), netezi (arrange, dress, edge, grade, iron, plane, satinize, sleek, smooth, smooth down, Square, stroke, tabulate, trim), aplatiza (iron), pleoşti (lop), turti (cave, Pat, press), se descuraja (collapse), se domoli (abate, ease, lull, quiet down, relent, slacken, soften, swoon), se nivela, se potoli (abate, burn down, calm, dampen, die away, fall, lull, quiet, remit, settle, smooth down, soften, subside), se ruina (break, crash, decay, dilapidate, fall, go under, ruin), se trezi (awake, awaken, rattle up, stale, stir, wake, wake up, waken), nivela (equalize, level, level away, scrape, smooth). (various references)

Russian 

выравнивать (align, aligned, aligns, aline, equalize, equalizing, even, even out, flatten out, justify, level, unskew). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zaravniti (level), spljoštiti (planish), spljeskati (swat). (various references)

Spanish

alisar (smooth, sleek, slick). (various references)

Swedish

få back, tillplatta, ta luften ur (deflate), slå ner (beat down, cast down, clobber, knock down, lay out, strike down, swoop down), sänka ett halvt tonsteg (flat), plattar till, krossa (crush, smash, crunch, mill, quash, shatter, squelch), golva (floor), glätta (gloss, smooth). (various references)

Turkish

yerle bir etmek (coventrize, level, raze, raze smth. to the ground), yassılaştırmak, yaslamak (lean, prop, prop up), matlaştırmak (deaden, tarnish), keyfini kaçırmak (discomfort, dispirit, give the pips, indispose, miff, upset), düzlemek (even, flush, plane, plaster, point up, shallow, sleek, slick, smooth, smooth out, smooth over, try out), düzleştirmek (even, level, slick, smooth, surface), düzleşmek (become smooth, even, even out, flatten out), dümdüz etmek (bash in). (various references)

Turkmen 

яasylamak, яapbaюmak, яapbaюdyrmak, maююartmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

стихати (die down, die off, drop, moderate, slake, subside), розгладжувати (sleek), вирівнювати (even, iron out, level, macadamize, plane, smooth out), пригнічувати (aggrieve, cast down, deject, depress, downcast, hold down, hold under, oppress, repress, tread down, yoke). (various references)

Welsh

fflatio (flat), lleddfu (allay, assuage, soften, soothe). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "flatten": flattened, flattener, flatteners, flattening, flattens. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Flatten" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: falten, flate, flaten, Flatin, flattern, fleten, flitin, Flitton, flotte, Flottweg, fluten. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: fatten, latent, latten, talent.

-2 letters: fetal, laten, latte, leant.

-3 letters: alef, ante, elan, etna, fane, fate, feal, feat, felt, feta, flan, flat, flea, lane, late, leaf, lean, left, lent, neat, nett, tael, tale, tate, teal, teat, tela, tent.

-4 letters: aft, ale, alt, ane, ant, ate, att, eat, eft, elf, eta, fan, fat, fen, fet.

+1 letter: antileft, flattens.

+2 letters: flattened, flattener, flatulent.

+3 letters: flatteners, flattening, flattering, flauntiest, infiltrate.

+4 letters: battlefront, festinately, flannelette, flatulently, fortunately, infiltrated, infiltrates, leafletting, tactfulness.

+5 letters: battlefronts, felicitating, felicitation, flannelettes, flatteringly, frontalities, infiltrative, interfaculty, tastefulness, thankfullest, unflattering.