Synonyms of flattens

flattens

verb

present tense third-person singular of flatten

1

as in smooths

to make free from breaks, curves, or bumps

flattened out the wrinkled paper before attempting to trace the pattern

Synonyms & Similar Words

• smooths
• shaves
• planes
• rakes
• evens
• smoothens
• trims
• levels
• lays
• crops
• clips
• spreads
• prunes
• pares
• combs
• presses
• surfaces
• cards

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• roughens
• coarsens
• roughs
• bends
• wrinkles
• pits
• rumples
• dents
• kinks

2

as in buries

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

• buries
• overcomes
• annihilates
• throws
• overwhelms
• smothers
• upsets
• clobbers
• whips
• bombs
• thrashes
• takes
• tops
• wallops
• destroys
• beats
• dusts
• routs
• trims
• blows away
• sweeps
• trounces
• pastes
• surpasses
• smokes
• masters
• exceeds
• conquers
• succeeds
• waxes
• scores
• subdues
• skins
• whomps
• creams
• tromps
• crushes
• drubs
• eats alive
• surmounts
• whups
• whops
• overpowers
• beats the pants off
• upends
• snows under
• transcends
• dispatches
• subjugates
• vanquishes
• wipes the floor with
• shellacs
• caps
• runs circles around
• excels
• licks
• prevails (over)
• outstrips
• outdoes
• outshines
• overthrows
• slaughters
• finishes
• wins (against)
• triumphs (over)
• bests
• outdistances
• eclipses
• skunks
• overbears
• overtops
• hurdles
• flourishes
• breaks
• knocks over
• sinks
• knocks off
• betters
• edges (out)
• noses out
• overmatches
• worsts
• aces (out)
• does in
• pips
• outfights

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of flattens

The ScanMax 320 automatically flattens curved book pages digitally, ensuring clean, flat text without requiring you to tear pages out or manually edit them. — New Atlas, 18 Aug. 2026

That notion flattens a complex record and turns history into a morality play of angels and demons. — Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026

Catherine flattens him in the kitchen, burying her death syringe in his eyeball. — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026

When every review begins with something real that can be modified in the room, the layers that existed to summarize and relay lose their function, and the structure flattens without a reorganization memo. — Andrew Sorohan, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026

Whether the fabric thins or the loop texture flattens after any cleaning attempt — the point to stop and call an upholstery professional. — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 22 July 2026

Japanese is a high-context language, meaning that more can be conveyed with less; an English translation naturally bloats the word count and flattens the cultural context. — Literary Hub, 13 July 2026

Franklyn-Miller is certainly pretty, serving as a fine face for this story, but the screenplay (by Erwin, Diederik Hoogstraten and Tom Provost) flattens his character into a basic cookie-cutter hero. — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026

The scroll has been digitally unwrapped using a technique pioneered by Seales called Volume Cartographer, which takes scans of a 3D manuscript, layer by layer, and then effectively flattens these into 2D images that can then be read. — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 26 June 2026