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deflateDefinitions
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| deflate | |
| 1. v. To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre |  |
| 2. v. To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink | |
| 3. v. (transitive, economics) To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices. | |
| 4. v. (intransitive) To become deflated. | |
| 5. v. To let down or disappoint. | |
| 6. v. (transitive, computing) To compress (data) according to a particular algorithm. | |
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