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Verbi

1. To compliment someone, often (but not necessarily) insincerely and sometimes to win favour.
2. To enhance or gratify someone's vanity by praising them.
3. To portray someone to advantage.
4. To encourage or cheer someone with (usually false) hope.
5. (usually reflexive) To cheer or please (with the idea that); congratulate oneself, especially when the perception is false.
6. (obsolete, intransitive) In phrasal verb "to flatter with": to encourage, inspire with hope.

Substantiivi

1. A type of set tool used by blacksmiths.
2. (British, New Zealand, slang) Someone who lives in a rented flat.
3. A flat-faced fulling hammer.
4. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips such as watch springs.
5. Someone who flattens, purposely or accidentally. Also flattener.