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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
de·flate 
[di-fleyt] Pronunciation Key verb, -flat·ed, -flat·ing.
[di-fleyt] Pronunciation Key verb, -flat·ed, -flat·ing. –verb (used with object)
–verb (used without 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. |
| 4. | to become deflated. |
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| de·flate
(dĭ-flāt') Pronunciation Key
v. de·flat·ed, de·flat·ing, de·flates v. tr.
v. intr. To be or become deflated: The balloon deflated slowly. [de- + (in)flate.] de·fla'tor n. |
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
deflate
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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
| deflate | |
verb | |
| 1. | collapse by releasing contained air or gas; "deflate a balloon" |
| 2. | release contained air or gas from; "deflate the air mattress" |
| 3. | reduce or lessen the size or importance of; "The bad review of his work deflated his self-confidence" |
| 4. | produce deflation in; "The new measures deflated the economy" [ant: inflate] |
| 5. | reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices; "deflate the currency" [ant: inflate] |
| 6. | become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air; "The balloons deflated" [ant: blow up] |
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This
deflate file format, compression
A 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)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Deflate
De*flate"\, v. t. [Pref. de- down + L. flare, flatus to blow.] To reduce from an inflated condition.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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