Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To release contained air or gas from.
- v. To collapse by releasing contained air or gas.
- v. To reduce or lessen the size or importance of: Losing the contest deflated my ego.
- v. Economics To reduce the amount or availability of (currency or credit), effecting a decline in prices.
- v. Economics To produce deflation in (an economy).
- v. To be or become deflated: The balloon deflated slowly.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To remove the air from: the opposite of inflate.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink
- v. transitive (economics) To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices.
- v. intransitive To become deflated.
- v. transitive To let down or disappoint.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To reduce from an inflated condition; used literally and metaphorically.
WordNet 3.0
- v. release contained air or gas from
- v. reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices
- v. produce deflation in
- v. become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air
- v. collapse by releasing contained air or gas
- v. reduce or lessen the size or importance of
Etymologies
- de- + (in)flate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Drop the dough in (it will deflate, which is fine) and spread it vaguely around the pan.”
“The AHA363-PCIE adapter card is compliant with open standard compression algorithm GZIP - also known as deflate - for the highest performance of any hardware compression solution on the market today.”
“One sexual partner will "deflate" one end of the blossom by squeezing all the internal fluid to the other end, then insert the deflated end inside her vagina.”
“· Includes integrated support for "deflate", bzip2, and 7-Zip LZMA file compression.”
“Second, it is well known that the inflation index used to "deflate" wage increases, the Consumer Price Index (CPI), has a built in overstatement”
“Installation of files: Includes integrated support for "deflate", bzip2, and 7-Zip LZMA file compression.”
“When in fact supplements like creatine add water to your muscles to make them look bigger, then a couple of months after you quit the creatine you literally "deflate" back down to your original size!”
“· Web Shield now scans pages compressed with the "deflate" algorithm”
“To actually "deflate" stats requires some standard by which we filter out "good" plays from”
“Includes integrated support for "deflate", bzip2, and 7-Zip LZMA file compression.”
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Alexis Perez To let the air out. The the ball was deflated after throwing it at the car. Dec 6, 2010