Verb:

बढ़ाना चढ़ाना, बढ़ा-चढ़ाकर दिखाना, चापलूसी करना,

flatter's Usage Examples:

The Severn down to Worcester, draining 1,256,000 acres of generally flatter land largely of the same lithological character, gave in the dry season from the 1st of July 1887 to the 30th of June 1888 a loss of 17.93 in.

The arrangement was evidently intended to flatter the Babylonians by giving them once more the semblance of independence.

In the flatter parts of the valley occur large beds of loam and rubble, sometimes in terraces parallel with, but several hundred feet above, the river, proving by their disposition and appearance that the valley has been formed by the action of water.

King Lear is about a father who has three daughters—two who flatter him, but a third who speaks honestly and bluntly to him because she loves him.

I do not wish to flatter my townsmen, nor to be flattered by them, for that will not advance either of us.

The reservoir begins to fall at the end of February, and continues to do so with few and short exceptions until the end of August, and it so happens that about the end of August this dotted line, b b representing actual cumulative demand, crosses the straight line a a of uniform demand, so that the excess of demand, represented by the slope from June to September, is balanced by the deficiency of demand, represented by the flatter slope in the first five months, except as regards the small quantity b e near the end of February, which, not having been drawn off during January and February, must overflow before the end of February.

Below Bakel the river passes through flatter country and presents a series of great reaches.

Between Iddah and Onitsha, 80 m., the banks are lower and the country flatter, and to the south of Onitsha the whole land is laid under water during the annual Delta.

And, moreover, the instincts of Jordanes, as a subject of the Eastern Empire, predisposed him to flatter the sacred majesty of Justinian, by whose victorious arms the overthrow of the barbarian kingdom in Italy had been effected.

I do not flatter myself, but if it be possible they flatter me.

Synonyms:

butter up, suck up, soft-soap, kotow, stroke, brown-nose, adulate, fawn, bootlick, truckle, toady, blandish, praise, kowtow,

Antonyms:

straighten, stand, disapproval, disparage, criticize,