Usually means: Reducing or diminishing in size, importance.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word deflating:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. deflating: Merriam-Webster
  2. deflating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. deflating: Vocabulary.com
  4. Deflating, deflating: Wordnik
  5. deflating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. deflating: Wiktionary
  7. deflating: Dictionary.com
  8. deflating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. deflating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deflating: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deflating: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Deflating: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See deflate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (deflate)

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
▸ Also see deflate


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