deflate
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Synonyms: delate, dealate, reflate
Antonyms: delate, dealate, reflate
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Verb
- {{lb|en|transitive}} To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre.
- {{lb|en|transitive}} To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to [[shrink]]
- {{lb|en|transitive|economics}} To [[reduce]] the amount of available [[currency]] or [[credit]] and thus [[lower]] [[price]]s.
- {{lb|en|intransitive}} To become [[deflated]].
- {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[let down|let (someone) down]], [[disappoint]] them, or [[put someone in their place|put them in their place]].
- {{lb|en|transitive|computing}} To [[compress]] (data) according to a particular [[algorithm]]. <!-- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/%22deflated%22$20compressed$20data -->
- {{lb|en|slang}} To [[belch]] or [[flatulate]]
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