flatten

His voice flattens, his words become stripped back.

The city of Rafah itself, close to the new aid site, has been all but flattened into the desert.

These assist in humanizing figures other TV formats tend to flatten.

The bandmates dressed in secondhand suits that made them look posh to some and, perhaps more damningly, refused to flatten their class identity into something easily legible.

A lot of damage also comes from landslides caused by earthquakes, which can flatten houses in mountain villages and block rivers, causing flooding.