flatten

flatten is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as adjective, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.
2. adjective. To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.
3. adjective. To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
4. adjective. To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch.
5. intransitive verb. To become or grow flat, even, depressed dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch.
6. verb. lower the pitch of (musical notes)

   Synonyms: drop

7. verb. become flat or flatter

   "The landscape flattened"

8. verb. make flat or flatter

   "flatten a road"

   "flatten your stomach with these exercises"

Synonyms

drop

Common word forms

flattens, flattened, flattener, flattening

Words from these letters

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