Fatten vs Flatten - What's the difference?
fatten | flatten |
To become fatter
To cause to be fatter
To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich.
To make something flat or flatter.
(reflexive) To press one's body tightly against a surface, such as a wall or floor, especially in order to avoid being seen or harmed.
* 1994 , , ch. 2:
To knock down or lay low.
To become flat or flatter; to plateau.
To be knocked down or laid low.
(music) To lower by a semitone.
To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
(computer graphics) To combine (separate layers) into a single image.
As a verb fatten
is to become fatter.As a noun flatten is
.fatten
English
Verb
(en verb)- He gradually fattened in the five years after getting married.
- We must fatten the turkey in time for Thanksgiving.
- to fatten land
- (Dryden)
Synonyms
* (become fatter) get fat, grow fat, put on weight, gainSee also
* fattening * fatten upflatten
English
Verb
(en verb)- As there was a lot of damage, we chose the heavy roller to flatten the pitch.
- Mary would flatten the dough before rolling it into pretzels.
- With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hob-house Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.
- The prize fighter quickly flattened his challenger.
- Prices have flattened out .