(transitive) To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre.
Used in a Sentence
deflate
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for deflate.
Editorial note
I don't mean to completely shoot you down; I merely want to deflate you a little.
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Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
(transitive) To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of deflate gathered in one view.
(transitive) To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink
(transitive, economics) To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for deflate.
verb
(transitive) To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre.
verb
(transitive) To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink
verb
(transitive, economics) To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices.
verb
(intransitive) To become deflated.
Example sentences
I don't mean to completely shoot you down; I merely want to deflate you a little.
China's fiscal policy does serve to deflate the dollar, so that counterweights QE a little, but that much?
The deflate algorithm (stream) may have no global knowledge of the eventual file size but the gzip file format does.
IE still does not support deflate as specified in the RFC, with a zlib header.
On the downside, there also won't be any deflate/gzip (Unless implemented in js etc).
This has lead to most browsers also accepting raw deflate, to be reverse compatible.
On the plus side, we can deflate/gzip the contents (unfortunately not across messages, but still does well).
This will deflate the Chinese market bubble(and property bubble) almost immediately, you'll see this happen however when pigs are flying to the moon.
Hopefully WebSocket will get the ability to do deflate/gzip soon as well.
But nothing would more rapidly deflate the college bubble than if the Court were to hear such a case and rule consistently with Griggs.
Should the FBI be involved when the Pats deflate some footballs?
The point of the analogy is to recognize that creating money to accomplish socially useful tasks is better than either burying money in mine shafts or expecting the private market to deflate or dig up more gold.
Quote examples
This is what makes me think that it won't "pop" but instead deflate slowly and painfully.
This argument is pretty easy to deflate: a defender of "absolute free speech" most certainly would not be okay with people walking up to them in the street, following them home and verbally threatening them.
In the USA, we will probably have a major market corection to current "bubble-ism" soon, and in my opinion a 20 to 25% drop in prices would deflate bubbles and probably make things more stable.
Proper noun examples
Deflate compression algorithms keep references to possible LZ backreferences in a hash table, and depending on your choice of hash algorithm, and how much you prune your table versus spending memory and time storing and searching it, you'll end up emitting different backreferences.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use deflate in a sentence?
I don't mean to completely shoot you down; I merely want to deflate you a little.
What does deflate mean?
(transitive) To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre.
What part of speech is deflate?
deflate is commonly used as verb.