Synonyms of flattening

flattening

verb

present participle of flatten

1

as in smoothing

to make free from breaks, curves, or bumps

flattened out the wrinkled paper before attempting to trace the pattern

Synonyms & Similar Words

• smoothing
• shaving
• trimming
• levelling
• planing
• evening
• leveling
• smoothening
• clipping
• laying
• raking
• combing
• paring
• cropping
• pruning
• spreading
• pressing
• surfacing
• carding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• roughing
• roughening
• wrinkling
• bending
• pitting
• denting
• rumpling
• coarsening
• kinking

2

as in whipping

to defeat by a large margin

if you don't understand the rules, you're going to get flattened when you try to play

Synonyms & Similar Words

• whipping
• burying
• overcoming
• bombing
• trimming
• throwing
• annihilating
• dusting
• clobbering
• pasting
• mastering
• smothering
• routing
• upsetting
• topping
• beating
• creaming
• thrashing
• skinning
• taking
• destroying
• sweeping
• trouncing
• smoking
• walloping
• whopping
• waxing
• conquering
• blowing away
• overwhelming
• whapping
• scoring
• surpassing
• crushing
• drubbing
• tromping
• exceeding
• capping
• succeeding
• whomping
• dispatching
• shellacking
• whupping
• eating alive
• running rings around
• subduing
• beating the pants off
• licking
• surmounting
• running circles around
• subjugating
• snowing under
• wiping the ground with
• finishing
• skunking
• upending
• slaughtering
• overthrowing
• vanquishing
• wiping the floor with
• transcending
• prevailing (over)
• hurdling
• eclipsing
• overpowering
• besting
• winning (against)
• bettering
• outstripping
• outdistancing
• triumphing (over)
• overbearing
• outdoing
• outshining
• flourishing
• knocking over
• excelling
• overtopping
• breaking
• worsting
• overmatching
• knocking off
• sinking
• edging (out)
• acing (out)
• pipping
• outfighting
• doing in
• nosing out