| DEFLATE | • deflate v. (Transitive) To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre. • deflate v. (Transitive) To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink. • deflate v. (Transitive, economics) To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices. |
| FLATBED | • flatbed n. An open freight vehicle with no sides, designed to carry heavy or outsized loads. • flatbed n. A railway freight car with no sides; a flatcar. • flatbed n. (Computing) A document scanner with a flat bed. |
| FLATCAP | • flatcap n. Alternative form of flat cap (“headgear”). • flat␣cap n. A man’s cap made from wool, tweed, or other soft material. It has a small peak and fits snugly on the head. • flat␣cap n. Cap paper, not folded. |
| FLATCAR | • flatcar n. (Rail transport, US) A railroad freight car without sides and roof. • FLATCAR n. a railway car without sides or roof. |
| FLATLET | • flatlet n. (Britain) A very small flat (apartment). • FLATLET n. a type of apartment. |
| FLATTED | • flatted v. Simple past tense and past participle of flat. • FLAT v. to make flat. |
| FLATTEN | • flatten v. (Transitive) To make something flat or flatter. • flatten v. (Reflexive) To press one’s body tightly against a surface, such as a wall or floor, especially in order… • flatten v. (Transitive) To knock down or lay low. |
| FLATTER | • flatter adj. Comparative form of flat: more flat. • flatter v. To compliment someone, often (but not necessarily) insincerely and sometimes to win favour. • flatter v. To enhance someone’s vanity by praising them. |
| FLATTIE | • flattie n. Alternative form of flatty. • flattie n. (Informal) A flat white (type of coffee). • flattie n. (South Africa) A flat marinated cut of meat. |
| FLATTOP | • flattop n. (US) A short haircut in which the hair is brushed straight up then cut flat across the top. • flattop n. (US, navy, informal) An aircraft carrier. • flattop n. (Music) A type of stringed instrument, most often an acoustic guitar, with a flat top (as opposed to… |
| INFLATE | • inflate v. (Transitive) To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally. • inflate v. (Intransitive) To enlarge by filling with air (or a gas). • inflate v. (Figurative) To swell; to puff up. |
| MUDFLAT | • mudflat n. A muddy expanse of flat land, especially such land as a river bed exposed at low tide. • mud␣flat n. Alternative spelling of mudflat. • MUDFLAT n. a level tract alternately covered and left bare by the tide. |
| REFLATE | • reflate v. To reinflate, to inflate again. • reflate v. (Economics) To restore the general level of prices to a previous or desirable level. • REFLATE v. to inflate again. |
| RUNFLAT | • runflat adj. Alternative form of run-flat. • run-flat adj. (Automotive) Of a pneumatic tyre/tire: designed to resist the effects of deflation when punctured, and… • RUNFLAT n. a tyre able to run after being punctured. |