Deflate
verb
To let air or gas out of something, like a balloon or tire.
I accidentally stepped on the ball and it deflated.
Often appears as...
- deflate a balloon
- deflate a tire
verb
To make someone lose confidence or feel less important.
His harsh words deflated her enthusiasm.
Often appears as...
- deflate someone's ego
- deflate one's confidence
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To reduce or control the level or amount of something.
The government is taking steps to deflate the property bubble.
Often appears as...
- deflate a bubble
- deflate prices
Usage tips
Formal, Neutral
Academic
verb
To let air or gas out of something, like a balloon or tire.
I accidentally stepped on the ball and it deflated.
Often appears as...
- deflate a balloon
- deflate a tire
verb
To make someone lose confidence or feel less important.
His harsh words deflated her enthusiasm.
Often appears as...
- deflate someone's ego
- deflate one's confidence
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To reduce or control the level or amount of something.
The government is taking steps to deflate the property bubble.
Often appears as...
- deflate a bubble
- deflate prices
Usage tips
Formal, Neutral
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Action
Use 'deflate' when referring to releasing air or gas by physical action or accident.
She poked the beach ball with a stick, and it started to deflate rapidly.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Intentional
'Deflate' can happen without someone wanting it to, like a tire getting a puncture.
The tire deflated overnight because of a nail in the road.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Action
Use 'deflate' when referring to releasing air or gas by physical action or accident.
She poked the beach ball with a stick, and it started to deflate rapidly.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Intentional
'Deflate' can happen without someone wanting it to, like a tire getting a puncture.
The tire deflated overnight because of a nail in the road.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Action
Use 'deflate' when referring to releasing air or gas by physical action or accident.
She poked the beach ball with a stick, and it started to deflate rapidly.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Intentional
'Deflate' can happen without someone wanting it to, like a tire getting a puncture.
The tire deflated overnight because of a nail in the road.
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Video examples
Will Wright: Spore,...
where we're going to design the next generation. So it has a little spine. I can move around, I can extend. I can also inflate or deflate it with the mouse wheel, so you sculpt it like clay. We have parts here that I can put on or pull off. The idea is that the player can basically design anything they can think of in this editor, and we'll basically bring it to life.
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See the Extreme Ice...
blowing around the southern part of the world it's giving you a test for what's going on in these latitudes and you can see the air and the climate changing through these glaciers this one that's the one that was taken over there all the deflation that may have occurred could just throw off what we're actually looking at but I think overall we're a
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Light seconds, light...
These stars are internally unstable, like a constantly inflating and deflating balloon. And because the expansion and contraction causes their brightness to vary, we can calculate their luminosity by measuring the period of this cycle, with more luminous stars changing more slowly. By comparing the light we observe from these stars
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What gives a dollar bill...
While this would stimulate business, it would also encourage overconsumption, or hoarding commodities, like food and fuel, raising their prices and leading to consumer shortages and even more inflation. But deflation would make people want to hold onto their money, and a decrease in consumer spending
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Employees must wash...
really high energy session and generated hundreds of ideas the energy in the room was amazing one of the one of the nurses in my group changed from the start of the session being quite dismissive and a bit deflated she really didn't want to
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Self Inflating Fish PIPE...
okay the truth is the puffer gulps water until it resembles a beach ball and in the process transforms from a tasty morsel into a major pain no matter what the otter tries the puffer refuses to deflate himself naturally the otter
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James Balog: Time-lapse...
A tremendous amount of ice has been let out of these valleys as it's retreated and deflated, gone back up valley. These changes in the alpine world are accelerating. It's not static. Particularly in the world of sea ice,
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Puffer Fish PIPE National...
puffer refuses to deflate himself naturally the otter appears baffled he set out to get a fish dinner and instead he seems to be playing a ball game the irony here is that the puffer is protecting both of them
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What is a Sea Pen? PIPE...
deflate and bury themselves in the seabed it's thought this behavior might protect sea pens from predators and this may be the first time that evidence has been
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What is entropy? - Jeff...
The chance of a hot object in the real world getting hotter is so absurdly small, it just never happens. Ice melts, cream mixes in, and tires deflate
Video examples
Will Wright: Spore,...
where we're going to design the next generation. So it has a little spine. I can move around, I can extend. I can also inflate or deflate it with the mouse wheel, so you sculpt it like clay. We have parts here that I can put on or pull off. The idea is that the player can basically design anything they can think of in this editor, and we'll basically bring it to life.
Video examples
See the Extreme Ice...
blowing around the southern part of the world it's giving you a test for what's going on in these latitudes and you can see the air and the climate changing through these glaciers this one that's the one that was taken over there all the deflation that may have occurred could just throw off what we're actually looking at but I think overall we're a
Video examples
Light seconds, light...
These stars are internally unstable, like a constantly inflating and deflating balloon. And because the expansion and contraction causes their brightness to vary, we can calculate their luminosity by measuring the period of this cycle, with more luminous stars changing more slowly. By comparing the light we observe from these stars
Video examples
What gives a dollar bill...
While this would stimulate business, it would also encourage overconsumption, or hoarding commodities, like food and fuel, raising their prices and leading to consumer shortages and even more inflation. But deflation would make people want to hold onto their money, and a decrease in consumer spending
Video examples
Employees must wash...
really high energy session and generated hundreds of ideas the energy in the room was amazing one of the one of the nurses in my group changed from the start of the session being quite dismissive and a bit deflated she really didn't want to
Video examples
Self Inflating Fish PIPE...
okay the truth is the puffer gulps water until it resembles a beach ball and in the process transforms from a tasty morsel into a major pain no matter what the otter tries the puffer refuses to deflate himself naturally the otter
Video examples
James Balog: Time-lapse...
A tremendous amount of ice has been let out of these valleys as it's retreated and deflated, gone back up valley. These changes in the alpine world are accelerating. It's not static. Particularly in the world of sea ice,
Video examples
Puffer Fish PIPE National...
puffer refuses to deflate himself naturally the otter appears baffled he set out to get a fish dinner and instead he seems to be playing a ball game the irony here is that the puffer is protecting both of them
Video examples
What is a Sea Pen? PIPE...
deflate and bury themselves in the seabed it's thought this behavior might protect sea pens from predators and this may be the first time that evidence has been
Video examples
What is entropy? - Jeff...
The chance of a hot object in the real world getting hotter is so absurdly small, it just never happens. Ice melts, cream mixes in, and tires deflate
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Quote examples
Sylvester Stallone
American Actor
My life has always been chaotic. From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.
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Hannah Murray
English Actress
You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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Carl Sagan
American Scientist
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
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John Mellencamp
American Musician
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.
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P. J. Tucker
American Basketball Player
Me getting cut from Toronto that first year, definitely helped with the ego. It was deflating. Some people either quit or some people get hungry.
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Randy Rainbow
American Comedian
I like the idea of sort of being able to stick a pin in something and deflate it with humor and just get a laugh, otherwise we'll cry.
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Robert Kiyosaki
American Author
Deflation isn't good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.
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Le'Veon Bell
American Athlete
I think if you deflate a football, then you're definitely cheating.
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Stanley Druckenmiller
American Businessman
The way you create deflation is you create an asset bubble.
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Lisa Stansfield
English Musician
My bed is my weird little haven. It's like a deflated tent.
Quote examples
Sylvester Stallone
American Actor
My life has always been chaotic. From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.
Quote examples
Hannah Murray
English Actress
You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
Quote examples
Carl Sagan
American Scientist
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
Quote examples
John Mellencamp
American Musician
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.
Quote examples
P. J. Tucker
American Basketball Player
Me getting cut from Toronto that first year, definitely helped with the ego. It was deflating. Some people either quit or some people get hungry.
Quote examples
Randy Rainbow
American Comedian
I like the idea of sort of being able to stick a pin in something and deflate it with humor and just get a laugh, otherwise we'll cry.
Quote examples
Robert Kiyosaki
American Author
Deflation isn't good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.
Quote examples
Le'Veon Bell
American Athlete
I think if you deflate a football, then you're definitely cheating.
Quote examples
Stanley Druckenmiller
American Businessman
The way you create deflation is you create an asset bubble.
Quote examples
Lisa Stansfield
English Musician
My bed is my weird little haven. It's like a deflated tent.
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