flatten out

The trail starts with a very brief steep incline up a paved road before quickly flattening out.

Like those earlier artists, Eliasson strives to keep perception from closing down, flattening out into the dull familiarity of debilitating habits — which applies to varieties of experience, whether emotional, political or social.

“I think you’ll see some flattening out of the real large increases.”

A lot of arugula flattens out when it’s packed, making it more prone to sliminess or rot, but Esmee’s ruffled edges add volume, with air pockets between the leaves that keep it drier and fresher.

Another remembers having to flatten out a corpse in which rigor mortis had set in.