To make flat; reduce to an equal or even surface; level.To lay flat; bring to the ground; prostrate.To make vapid or insipid; render stale.In music, same as flat, 4.To deaden or deprive of luster, as a pigment; bring to a smooth surface or even tint, without relief or gradation.In optics, to free from curvature or distortion, as the lines of an image projected by a lens.To become flat; grow or become even on the surface.To become stale, vapid, or tasteless.In music, same as flat, 3.Flat; foolish.