To encourage or cheer someone with (usually false) hope.
To compliment someone, often (but not necessarily) insincerely and sometimes to win favour.
To enhance someone's vanity by praising them.
To portray someone to advantage.
Someone who flattens, purposely or accidently. Also flattener.
Someone who lives in a rented flat.
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.
To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.
To make a noise like thunder.
To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
To (make something) move very fast (with loud noise).
To produce something with incredible power.
The spotlight.
An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.
The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.
A deep, rumbling noise resembling thunder.