Deflate

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  deflate \de*flate"\, v. t. [Pref. de- down + L. flare, flatus to
     blow.]
     To reduce from an inflated condition; used literally and
     metaphorically; as, to deflate a tire; to deflate
     expectations.
     [1913 Webster +PJC]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  deflate
       v 1: collapse by releasing contained air or gas; "deflate a
            balloon"
       2: release contained air or gas from; "deflate the air
          mattress"
       3: reduce or lessen the size or importance of; "The bad review
          of his work deflated his self-confidence" [syn: {puncture}]
       4: produce deflation in; "The new measures deflated the
          economy" [ant: {inflate}]
       5: reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a
          decline in value or prices; "deflate the currency" [ant: {inflate}]
       6: become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air; "The balloons
          deflated" [ant: {inflate}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  93 Moby Thesaurus words for "deflate":
     abridge, beat down, belie, blow sky-high, blow up, break, cave,
     cave in, cheapen, collapse, compress, curtail, cut, cut back,
     cut down, cut prices, damp, dampen, decline, decrease, deduct,
     depreciate, depress, devaluate, diminish, disarm, disconfirm,
     discredit, disgrace, disprove, dive, downgrade, embarrass, enchain,
     explode, expose, fall, fall in, fall in price, fold, fold up, gag,
     give way, hamstring, handcuff, hobble, hog-tie, humble, humiliate,
     implode, invalidate, jew down, knock out, lessen, let down, lower,
     manacle, mark down, mortify, muzzle, negate, negative, nose-dive,
     paralyze, pare, plummet, plunge, prostrate, prove the contrary,
     puncture, put out, put to shame, reduce, retrench, roll back, sag,
     scale down, shame, shave, shorten, show up, silence, simplify,
     slash, slump, step down, strangle, take from, throttle, trim,
     truss up, tune down, undercut
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  deflate
       
           A {compression} {standard} derived
          from {LZ77}; it is reportedly used in {zip}, {gzip}, {PKZIP},
          and {png}, among others.
       
          Unlike {LZW}, deflate compression does not use patented
          compression {algorithms}.
       
          Used as a verb to mean to compress (not decompress!) a file
          which has been compressed using deflate compression.  The
          opposite, {inflate}, means to decompress data which has been
          deflated.
       
          Deflate is described in {RFC 1951}.
       
          (1997-06-21)