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deflate

English

Etymology

de- +? (in)flate. Coined in 1891, in reference to balloons. Partly based on Latin deflo, deflare (perfect passive participle deflatus), which meant "blow away".

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /di??fle?t/
  • Rhymes: -e?t

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
  3. (transitive, economics) To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices.
  4. (intransitive) To become deflated.
  5. (transitive) To let down or disappoint.
  6. (transitive, computing) To compress (data) according to a particular algorithm.
    • 2003, "Alan D Johnson", unzip utility on HPUX (on newsgroup comp.sys.hp.hpux)
      Never had a problem, guess I've never had to deflate multiple files!

Antonyms

  • inflate

Derived terms

  • deflation

Translations

deflate From the web:

  • what deflate means
  • what deflates
  • what deflated helium balloons
  • what deflate bloating
  • what deflates you
  • what's deflate compression
  • what deflated balloon
  • what inflates balloons

punctured

English

Verb

punctured

  1. simple past tense and past participle of puncture

Derived terms

  • punctured interval
  • punctured neighborhood

punctured From the web:

  • what punctured lung
  • what does puncture mean
  • what's punctured interval
  • puncture wound
  • what a punctured lung feels like
  • what does puncture
  • what causes punctured tyres
  • punctuated equilibrium
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