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Deflate   /dɪflˈeɪt/   Listen
Deflate

verb
1.
Collapse by releasing contained air or gas.
2.
Release contained air or gas from.
3.
Reduce or lessen the size or importance of.  Synonym: puncture.
4.
Produce deflation in.
5.
Reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices.
6.
Become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air.





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"Deflate" Quotes from Famous Books



... the rigid type has hitherto been that in bad weather the airship cannot land. A non-rigid airship in a nasty wind can land and deflate itself at once by ripping the panel in the envelope, at no greater price than the loss of its gas, and probably some damage to its car. To land in a rigid ship is at best a ticklish business; indeed, the rigid airship is in exactly the same case ...
— The War in the Air; Vol. 1 - The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force • Walter Raleigh
... side of a case a man can kid himself into thinking that he is wholly right, that his cause is greater than himself and represents the rights of the entire community. But a counter-blast from the other side will deflate his balloon in a second and he'll come down to earth without even a parachute to soften the ...
— The Iron Puddler • James J. Davis
... herd is a mutual benefit life insurance company. When a gaunt and hungry wolf-pack appears, the adult bull and cow musk-oxen at once form a close circle, with the calves and young stock in the centre. That deadly ring of lowered heads and sharp horns, all hung precisely right to puncture and deflate hostile wolves, is impregnable to fang and claw. The arctic wolves know this well. Mr. Stefansson says it is the settled habit of wolf packs of Banks Land to pass musk-ox herds without even provoking them to ...
— The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals • William T. Hornaday


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