flatter🔊

To compliment someone, often (but not necessarily) insincerely and sometimes to win favor.

To enhance someone's vanity by praising them.

To portray someone to advantage.

To encourage or cheer someone with (usually false) hope.

A type of set tool used by blacksmiths.

A flat-faced fulling hammer.

A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips such as watch springs.

Someone who flattens, purposely or accidentally. Also flattener.

(Britain, New Zealand, slang) Someone who lives in a rented flat.