| Main Entry: | flatten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | level out |
Synonyms: |
abrade, beat down, compress, crush, debase, deflate, depress, even out, fell, floor, flush, grade, ground, iron out, knock down, lay, lay low, mow down, plane, plaster, prostrate, raze, roll, smash, smooth, spread out, squash, straighten, subdue, trample |
Antonyms: |
break, elevate, make uneven, raise, round |
| Main Entry: | flattened |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | leveled |
Synonyms: |
depressed, flat, planate, planed, smoothed |
| Main Entry: | bulldoze |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | demolish |
Synonyms: |
drive, elbow, flatten, force, jostle, level, press, propel, push, raze, shove, thrust |
Antonyms: |
build, construct |
| Main Entry: | deflate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reduce or cause to contract |
Synonyms: |
collapse, decrease, depreciate, depress, devalue, diminish, empty, exhaust, flatten, puncture, shrink, squash, void |
Antonyms: |
blow up, expand, inflate |
| Main Entry: | demolish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy; consume |
Synonyms: |
annihilate, break, bulldoze, burst, crack, crush, decimate, defeat, devastate, devour, dilapidate, dismantle, eat, flatten, gobble up, knock down, level, obliterate, overthrow, overturn, pulverize, put away, put in toilet, raze, ruin, sink, smash, take apart, take out, tear down, torpedo, total*, trash*, undo, wax, wipe off map, wrack, wreck |
Antonyms: |
build, construct, fix, produce, rebuild, repair, restore |
| Main Entry: | depress |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | push down |
Synonyms: |
couch, demit, dip, droop, flatten, let down, level, lower, press down, settle, sink, smoosh, squash |
Antonyms: |
push up, raise, uplift |
| Main Entry: | despair |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give up hope |
Synonyms: |
abandon, be hopeless, despond, destroy, drop, flatten, give way, have heavy heart, let air out, lose faith, lose heart, relinquish, renounce, resign, surrender, take down, yield |
Antonyms: |
anticipate, expect, have faith, hope, wish for |
| Main Entry: | even |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | balance, make smooth |
Synonyms: |
align, equal, equalize, flatten, flush, grade, lay, level, match, pancake, plane, regularize, roll, square, stabilize, steady, symmetrize, uniform |
Antonyms: |
break, furrow, lump, roughen |
| Main Entry: | fell |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | chop down |
Synonyms: |
blow down, bowl over, bring down, cause to fall, cleave, cut, cut down, dash, demolish, down, drop, flatten, floor*, gash, ground, hack, hew, knock down, knock over, lay low, level, mangle, mow down, prostrate, pull down, raze, rive, sever, shoot, shoot down, slash, split, strike down, sunder, throw down, tumble |
Antonyms: |
build, construct, erect, raise |
| Main Entry: | floor |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | perplex, confound |
Synonyms: |
baffle, beat, bewilder, bowl over, bring down, bring up short, conquer, defeat, discomfit, disconcert, down, drop, dumbfound, fell, flatten, ground, knock down, lay low, level, nonplus, overthrow, prostrate, puzzle, stump, throw |
Antonyms: |
clear up, explain |