deflate
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verb (used with object)
1.
to release the air or gas from (something inflated, as a balloon): They deflated the tires slightly to allow the truck to drive under the overpass.
2.
to depress or reduce (a person or a person's ego, hopes, spirits, etc.); puncture; dash: Her rebuff thoroughly deflated me.
3.
to reduce (currency, prices, etc.) from an inflated condition; to affect with deflation.
verb (used without object)
4.
to become deflated.
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| —vb | |
| 1. | to collapse or cause to collapse through the release of gas |
| 2. | (tr) to take away the self-esteem or conceit from |
| 3. | economics to cause deflation of (an economy, the money supply, etc) |
| [C19: from | |
| de'flator | |
| —n | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
deflate
1891, in reference to balloons, coinage based on inflate. L. deflare meant "to blow away," but in the modern word the prefix is taken in the sense of "down." Deflation in reference to currency or economic situations is from 1920.
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FOLDOC
Computing Dictionary
deflate definition
file format, compressionA compression standard derived from LZ77; it is reportedly used in zip, gzip, PKZIP, and png, among others.
Unlike LZW, deflate compression does not use patented compression algorithms.
Used as a verb to mean to compress (not decompress!) a file which has been compressed using deflate compression. The opposite, inflate, means to decompress data which has been deflated.
Deflate is described in RFC 1951.
(1997-06-21)
Example sentences
Unfortunately, the runners' waist sizes generally did not deflate with age.
The plan comes as home sales continue to plummet, prices continue to deflate, and inventories continue to grow.
Turn the fan setting down to medium to allow it to deflate so people can access the entrance.
They expose the spheres to rubbing alcohol, which causes them to deflate and collapse into the dimpled shape of a red blood cell.
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