deflate
Betekenis (Engels)
- To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre.
- To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink
- To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices.
- To become deflated.
- To let (someone) down, disappoint (them), or put (them) in (their) place.
- To compress (data) according to a particular algorithm.
- (slang) To belch or flatulate
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Synoniemen
disinflate
disparage
yield
become flat
uninflate
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Met koppelteken als
de‧flate
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/diːˈfleɪt/
Etymologie (Engels)
From de- + (in)flate. Coined in 1891, in reference to balloons. Partly based on Latin deflo, deflare (perfect passive participle deflatus), which meant "blow away".
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