deflate

See also: déflaté and déflate

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

• IPA^(key): /diːˈfleɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt

Verb

A deflated balloon.

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

reduction, usually in volume

• Arabic: انْكَمَش
• Bulgarian: изпразвам (bg) (izprazvam), намалявам (bg) (namaljavam), изпускам въздуха (izpuskam vǎzduha)
• Finnish: tyhjentää (fi), kutistaa
• Hungarian: leereszt (hu) (tr and intr), zsugorodik (hu) (intr), összezsugorodik (hu) (intr), zsugorít (hu) (tr), csökken (hu) (intr), csökkent (hu) (tr)
• Interlingua: deflar
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: deflazionare (all senses)
• Latin: exanimō
• Macedonian: издишува (izdišuva)
• Portuguese: desinflar, murchar (pt), esvaziar (pt)
• Spanish: desinflar (es), deshinchar (es)
• Swedish: släppa ur, släppa ut (luft, gas)