Verb: flatten fla-t(u)n
- Make flat or flatter
"flatten a road";
- pancake
- Become flat or flatter
"The landscape flattened";
- flatten out, pancake
- Destroy or completely remove a building or structure
"When a force occupies an enemy fortress, it may flatten the fortifications";
- level, raze, rase [archaic], dismantle, tear down, take down, pull down, demolish, knock down
- (music) lower the pitch of (musical notes)
"The singer flattened the high notes to stay in her comfortable range";
- drop
Derived forms: flattening, flattened, flattens
Type of: alter, change, change form, change shape, deform, destroy, destruct, form, modify, shape, spifflicate [Brit, informal], spiflicate [Brit, informal], uncreate [literary]
Encyclopedia: Flatten, Moselle