deflate

verb

🔊/dɪˈfleɪt/, 🔊/ˌdiːˈfleɪt/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they deflate	🔊/dɪˈfleɪt/, 🔊/ˌdiːˈfleɪt/ 🔊/dɪˈfleɪt/, 🔊/ˌdiːˈfleɪt/
he / she / it deflates	🔊/dɪˈfleɪts/, 🔊/ˌdiːˈfleɪts/ 🔊/dɪˈfleɪts/, 🔊/ˌdiːˈfleɪts/
past simple deflated	🔊/dɪˈfleɪtɪd/, 🔊/ˌdiːˈfleɪtɪd/ 🔊/dɪˈfleɪtɪd/, 🔊/ˌdiːˈfleɪtɪd/
past participle deflated	🔊/dɪˈfleɪtɪd/, 🔊/ˌdiːˈfleɪtɪd/ 🔊/dɪˈfleɪtɪd/, 🔊/ˌdiːˈfleɪtɪd/
-ing form deflating	🔊/dɪˈfleɪtɪŋ/, 🔊/ˌdiːˈfleɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/dɪˈfleɪtɪŋ/, 🔊/ˌdiːˈfleɪtɪŋ/

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🔊/dɪˈfleɪt/, 🔊/ˌdiːˈfleɪt/

🔊/dɪˈfleɪt/, 🔊/ˌdiːˈfleɪt/
[transitive, intransitive] deflate (something) to let air or gas out of a tyre, balloon, etc.; to become smaller because of air or gas coming out 放掉（轮胎、气球等的）气；（使）瘪下来
🔊/dɪˈfleɪt/

🔊/dɪˈfleɪt/
[transitive, often passive] to make somebody feel less confident; to make somebody/something feel or seem less important使泄气；挫败…的锐气
- be/feel deflated All the criticism had left her feeling totally deflated.所有这些批评使她彻底失去了信心。🔊🔊
🔊/ˌdiːˈfleɪt/

🔊/ˌdiːˈfleɪt/
[transitive] deflate something (economics经济学) to reduce the amount of money being used in a country so that prices fall or stay steady紧缩（通货）

Word Originlate 19th cent.: from de- (expressing reversal) + -flate (as in inflate).