Usually means: Reduce volume or size, depress.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word deflate:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. deflate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. deflate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deflate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deflate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deflate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Deflate, deflate: Wordnik
  7. deflate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. deflate: Wiktionary
  9. deflate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. deflate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. deflate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Deflate, deflate: Dictionary.com
  13. deflate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. deflate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. DEFLATE (algorithm), DEFLATE, Deflate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Deflate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. deflate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. deflate: Rhymezone
  19. deflate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. deflate: Free Dictionary
  21. deflate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. deflate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  2. DEFLATE (algorithm), deflate: Legal dictionary
  3. deflate: Financial dictionary
  4. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. deflate: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. DEFLATE (algorithm), deflate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre.
verb:  (transitive) To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink
verb:  (transitive, economics) To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices.
verb:  (intransitive) To become deflated.
verb:  (transitive) To let (someone) down, disappoint (them), or put (them) in (their) place.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To compress (data) according to a particular algorithm.
verb:  (slang) To belch or flatulate

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