deflate
Syllables: de·flate/diːˈfleɪt/
deflate verb: to remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre.
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Verb
deflate (third-person singular simple present deflates, present participle deflating, simple past and past participle deflated)
- To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre.
- To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink
- Synonyms:
- collapse
- To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices.
- To become deflated.
- To let (someone) down, disappoint them, or put them in their place.
- deflate someone's ego
- Scotland's first match at a men's major finals in 23 years ended in anguish after Patrik Schick's incredible halfway-line goal helped the Czech Republic inflict a deflating opening Euro 2020 defeat at Hampden.2021 June 14, Scott Mullen, “Scotland 0-2 Czech Republic”, in BBC Sport
- To compress (data) according to a particular algorithm.
- Never had a problem, guess I've never had to deflate multiple files!2003, Alan D Johnson, “unzip utility on HPUX”, in comp.sys.hp.hpux (Usenet)
- To belch or flatulate
deflate meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada and Arabic
deflate in Urdu
- ہوا نکالنا, پچکانا
deflate in Malayalam
- ടയറിൽനിന്ന് കാറ്റ് അഴിച്ചു വിടുക, ആത്മവിശ്വാസം കെടുത്തുക, നിരുത്സാഹപ്പെടുത്തുക
deflate in Kannada
- ಗಾಳಿತೆಗೆ, ಕಡಿಮೆಮಾಡು, ಇಳಿಸು, ತಗ್ಗಿಸು, ಆತ್ಮವಿಶ್ವಾಸ ಕುಂದಿಸು, ಹಣದುಬ್ಬರ ತಗ್ಗಿಸು
deflate in Arabic
- reduction, usually in volume
- انْكَمَش
More languagesFewer languages
- deflate in Thai
- แฟบ fɛ̂ɛp
Examples of deflate in a sentence
- So, some very deflated people trudged back into the hotel bar to drown their sorrows.
- Hurt and disappointment are very deflated states to be in, with little energy to them.
- To laugh off tempts to going overly 'blue' (any rejoiceless spirits), depressed, deflated, etc.
Synonyms of deflate
Antonyms
Forms of deflate
| third-person singular present | deflates |
|---|---|
| present participle | deflating |
| past participle | deflated |
| past | deflated |
Origin of deflate
From de- + (in)flate. Coined in 1891, in reference to balloons. Equivalent to Latin dē- (“away, from”) + Latin flō (“blow”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Words formed from deflate
Words that rhyme with deflate
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- mate
- late
- bate
- create
- date
- relate
- vibrate
- wait
- fate
- migrate
- rebate
- rotate
- strait
- supererogate
- translocate
- await
- eight
- freight
- skate
- alternate
- collate
- debate
- inflate
- sedate
- update
- compensate
- delate
- dilate
- fixate
- grate
- Haight
- hate
- implicate
- innate
- intercalate
- locate
- mandate
- negate
- overweight
- pinnate
- quadrate
- tate
- vacate
- aerate
- calibrate
- castrate
- conflate
- crate
Questions about deflate
- What does deflate mean?
- Deflate means to remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre.
- What is deflate in Urdu?
- Deflate in Urdu is ہوا نکالنا, پچکانا. See Deflate meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is deflate?
- Deflate is a verb.
- How do you pronounce deflate?
- Deflate is pronounced /diːˈfleɪt/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of deflate?
- The past tense of deflate is deflated.
Words near deflate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: deflate (page history and authors); deflate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deflate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deflate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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