verb
- Collapse by releasing contained air or gas.
- usage: "deflate a balloon"
- synonyms: deflate
- Release contained air or gas from.
- usage: "deflate the air mattress"
- synonyms: deflate
- Reduce or lessen the size or importance of.
- usage: "The bad review of his work deflated his self-confidence"
- Produce deflation in.
- usage: "The new measures deflated the economy"
- synonyms: deflate
- Reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices.
- usage: "deflate the currency"
- synonyms: deflate
- Become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air.
- usage: "The balloons deflated"
- synonyms: deflate
adjective
- Brought low in spirit.
- usage: "left us fatigued and deflated spiritually"
- synonyms: chapfallen, chopfallen, crestfallen
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