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Deflate

verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre. transitive
  2. 2
    become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air wordnet
  3. 3
    To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink transitive
  4. 4
    reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices wordnet
  5. 5
    To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices. transitive
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  1. 6
    produce deflation in wordnet
  2. 7
    To become deflated. intransitive
  3. 8
    reduce or lessen the size or importance of wordnet
  4. 9
    To let (someone) down, disappoint them, or put them in their place. transitive

    "deflate someone's ego"

  5. 10
    release contained air or gas from wordnet
  6. 11
    To compress (data) according to a particular algorithm. transitive

    "Never had a problem, guess I've never had to deflate multiple files!"

  7. 12
    collapse by releasing contained air or gas wordnet
  8. 13
    To belch or flatulate slang

Etymology

From de- + (in)flate. Coined in 1891, in reference to balloons. Equivalent to Latin dē- (“away, from”) + Latin flō (“blow”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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