flatten the curve (English, verb)
expansion: flatten the curve (third-person singular simple present flattens the curve, present participle flattening the curve, simple past and past participle flattened the curve)
Senses:
topics: epidemiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: To reduce the rate at which an infection spreads during an epidemic, decreasing the number of active cases at any given time by increasing the period of time over which numbers of similar cases occur.
tags: colloquial
Forms:
form: flattens the curve
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flattening the curve
tags: participle
present
form: flattened the curve
tags: participle
past
form: flattened the curve
tags: past