deflate

Verb

Meaning

To reduce from an inflated condition.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

puncture lower reduce empty decrease diminish shrink lessen flatten pierce minify chasten contract flat decline
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Antonyms

inflate ascension support help increase foster
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Hypernyms

change release turn cut fall reduce

Phrases with the word

deflate prices

Examples

Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and doubt that can deflate it. Jerome Groopman

The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely. Matt Taibbi

The balloons deflated Source: Internet

deflate the currency Source: Internet

The new measures deflated the economy Source: Internet

The bad review of his work deflated his self-confidence Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

deflagrative deflagrator deflatable deflate prices deflated deflated ego