Definitions from Wiktionary (flatter)
▸ verb: To compliment someone, often (but not necessarily) insincerely and sometimes to win favour.
▸ verb: To enhance or gratify someone's vanity by praising them.
▸ verb: To portray someone to advantage.
▸ verb: To encourage or cheer someone with (usually false) hope.
▸ verb: (usually reflexive) To cheer or please (with the idea that); congratulate oneself, especially when the perception is false.
▸ verb: (obsolete, intransitive) In phrasal verb "to flatter with": to encourage, inspire with hope.
▸ noun: A type of set tool used by blacksmiths.
▸ noun: A flat-faced fulling hammer.
▸ noun: A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips such as watch springs.
▸ noun: Someone who flattens, purposely or accidentally. Also flattener.
▸ noun: (British, New Zealand, slang) Someone who lives in a rented flat.
▸ Also see flatter
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▸ verb: To compliment someone, often (but not necessarily) insincerely and sometimes to win favour.
▸ verb: To enhance or gratify someone's vanity by praising them.
▸ verb: To portray someone to advantage.
▸ verb: To encourage or cheer someone with (usually false) hope.
▸ verb: (usually reflexive) To cheer or please (with the idea that); congratulate oneself, especially when the perception is false.
▸ verb: (obsolete, intransitive) In phrasal verb "to flatter with": to encourage, inspire with hope.
▸ noun: A type of set tool used by blacksmiths.
▸ noun: A flat-faced fulling hammer.
▸ noun: A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips such as watch springs.
▸ noun: Someone who flattens, purposely or accidentally. Also flattener.
▸ noun: (British, New Zealand, slang) Someone who lives in a rented flat.
▸ Also see flatter
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