Antonym: inflate. Similar words: deflated, deflation, inflate, inflated, flat rate, flagellate, deflect, flat. Meaning: [dɪ'fleɪt] 
v. 1. collapse by releasing contained air or gas 2. release contained air or gas from 3. reduce or lessen the size or importance of 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.
v. 1. collapse by releasing contained air or gas 2. release contained air or gas from 3. reduce or lessen the size or importance of 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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1. One sharp remark is enough to deflate her.
2. When it returns to shore, the life-jacket will deflate and revert to a harness.
3. Simkin hoped to find a way to deflate his opponent's argument.
4. We deflate the tyres to make it easier to cross the desert.
5. The Government decided to deflate.
6. He could deflate the most overblown of egos.
7. They have replaceable laminated foil liners and deflate as the liquid is emptied.
8. Kennedy, seeking to deflate the pressure, resorted to a tricky tactic.
9. The report will deflate arguments by city officials that they cannot reduce pollution.
10. That is unlikely to deflate him.
11. Deflate the tire and then inflate it afresh.
12. One sharp remark is enough deflate her.
13. After why pulling a head cannot deflate?
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15. That would undermine government efforts to deflate red - hot property prices, and threaten a stock market bubble.
16. Nothing could deflate his ego / pomposity , ie make him less self - assured or pompous.
17. For only thus can we deflate the enemy's arrogance and raise the people's morale.
18. "If you instead deflate the nominal GDP growth of 3.0 percent with the 4.3 percent increase in the gross domestic purchases deflator, then growth was -1.2 percent," he wrote on his blog.
19. But it pursued accommodating policies at first and did not deflate until 1964.
20. He refuses to accept any theory that attempts to either deflate it or reduce it.
21. If a saline breast implant ruptures[sentencedict.com], the implant will deflate — causing the affected breast to change in size and shape.
22. The up - regulating of required reserve ratio will deflate money supply.
23. " And last fall, in October, he made an apparent attempt to deflate the divorce rumors by sitting for a televised census count alongside his wife, who told the census taker, "I am his wife.
24. We breathe out simply by relaxing the diaphragm; the lungs deflate like balloons.
25. You could blow it up just like a balloon,(Sentencedict.com ) and deflate it while not using.
26. Each might regard the idea as risible, but their ability to deflate the reputations of self-important politicians and men of business makes classy moralists of them.
27. But investors now think China might, somehow , be able to make a bubble deflate slowly.
28. Without a productive foundation, as reflation and forbearance reach their limits, those bubble assets must deflate.
29. Like any actor he can be self-centred but I think I've worked out how to deflate him.
30. When investors generally expect that long - term monetary policy will deflate, they can positively shorten investing duration.