0 to become level or cause something to become level:
The path flattens (out) (= does not go up so much) as it reaches the top of the hill.
Television ad rates have flattened, if not declined slightly.
In the last decade we saw smoking rates flatten out and decline.
The use of a retardant coating on the surface of the powder slows the initial burn rate and flattens out the rate of change.
These public health measures are designed to flatten the curve in the spread of the disease.
Preventing a health care system from being overwhelmed in an epidemic requires a society to "flatten the curve" - that is, slow the rate of infection so there aren't too many cases that need hospitalization at one time.
This sort of banking lowers long-term interest rates; it flattens the curve.
1 to become level and thinner or to cause something to become level and thinner:
3 to stop increasing or stop something from increasing:
4 to reduce the number of different levels of managers and other employees in an organization:
We are taking out a level of management and flattening the organization.
He was immediately flattened by a single punch to the head.
The whole area was flattened in the bombing raid - not a building was left standing.
After a few hundred yards, you come to an area where the ground flattens out.
That tent is not secure, you know. The first gust of wind will flatten it.
A fight broke out and we had to grab Kevin to stop him flattening the other guy.
An alternative approach that avoids the use of an indexing operation works by building a perfect tree, and then flattening it into a list.
The space seems flattened and compressed, blurring the distinction between interior and exterior, between close and far away.
The second phase flattens the resulting tree of lists into one long list in the natural order.
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