deflating

Verb

deflate (third-person singular simple present deflates, present participle deflating, simple past and past participle deflated)

1. (transitive) To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre.
2. (transitive) To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink

   Synonyms:

   collapse

3. (transitive) To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices.
4. (intransitive) To become deflated.
5. (transitive) To let (someone) down, disappoint them, or put them in their place.
   • deflate someone's ego
6. (transitive) 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)

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