Deflate

Definitions: Deflate

Deflate

Verb

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".

4. Produce deflation in; "The new measures deflated the economy".

5. Reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices; "deflate the currency".

6. Become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air; "The balloons deflated".

Etymology: Deflate \De*flate"\, transitive verb. [Prefix de- down Latin flare, flatus to blow.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Computing	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). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

DEFLATE is a lossless data compression algorithm that uses a combination of the LZ77 algorithm and Huffman coding. It was originally defined by Phil Katz for version 2 of his PKZIP archiving tool, and was later specified in RFC 1951.

Unlike LZW, DEFLATE is free of any patents, and this has led to its use in gzip compressed files and PNG image files, in addition to the zip format for which it was originally designed.

Source code for DEFLATE compression and decompression can be found in zlib, the freely-available, general-purpose compression library.

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Synonym: Deflate

Synonym: puncture (v). (additional references)

Antonym: inflate (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Dissuasion	Disenchant,disillusion, deflate, take down a peg, pop one's balloon, prick one's balloon, burst one's bubble; disabuse (correction) a.
Money	Inflate, deflate; debase; devalue, revalue.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Deflate

Specialty definitions using "deflate": deflate compression, deflate/inflate compression, DESIGN PRINTER, BALLOON ♦ RFC 1951 ♦ SEWER-LINE REPAIRER, TELE-GROUT. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Deflate her? (Wings; writing credit: Ere Kokkonen)
Lyrics	I seen hoop dreams deflate like a true fiend's weight ("Izzo (H.O.V.A.)"; performing artist: Jay-Z)
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Play	Caption
	Squash; flatten; smoosh; smash; abrade; beat down; bowl over; compress; crush; debase; deflate; depress; even out; fell; floor; flush; grade; ground; iron out; knock down; lay; lay low; level; mow down; plane; plaster; prostrate; raze; roll; smash; smooth.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		By pressing a valve implanted under the skin, you can cause the artificial sphincter to deflate. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Deflate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 79.25% of the time. "Deflate" is used about 53 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	79.25%	42	52,864
Lexical Verb (base form)	16.98%	9	117,287
Noun (singular)	3.77%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	53	N/A

Expression using "deflate": deflate compression. Additional references.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "deflate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ul çmimet, pakësoj (abate, abridge, curtail, cut down, degrade, diminish, lessen, lower, narrow, pare, razee, reduce, retrench, slacken, understate, vitiate), luftoj inflacionin, çfryj. (various references)

Arabic		‏فرغ الهواء, ‏ضاءل (dwindle), ‏خفض الأسعار (price down, slash, soften). (various references)

Bulgarian		спадам (decline, decrease, dip, ease, ease off, ebb, fall, lower, recede, sag, sink, turn down), разбивам (agitate, beat, beat up, blank, blast, blight, break, break down, break in pieces, break to pieces, burst open, dash, disrupt, hack, kick in, mill, overwhelm, pry open, scatter, shatter, smash, smash in, smash up, split off, stamp, whip, whip up, wreck), опровергавам (belie, confute, contradict, deny, disprove, impugn, negative, overturn, rebut, refute), намалявам (abate, abbreviate, allay, attenuate, bring down, clip, contract, curtail, cut back, cut down, decline, decrease, deduct, degrade, deplete, detract, dim, diminish, ebb, extenuate, fine, impair, knock off, lessen, lighten, lull, minify, minimize, moderate, modify, pare down, prejudice, put back, put down, reduce, remit, run down, scant, shorten, shrink, sink, slacken, subdue, take from, thin, thin away, thin down, understate, wane, work down), пуквам се (burst open, dehisce, quicken), правя дефлация, изпразвам (clear out, deplenish, deplete, discharge, dismantle, empty, eviscerate, exhaust, unload). (various references)

Chinese		�"��" (deflated, Vented). (various references)

Czech		vypustit (drain, launch, let down, let off, let out, release, run off), vypumpovat (tap), usadit (score off, seat, settle, squash), srazit (bring down, precipitate, send down, slash, strike down), redukovat (decrease, reduce, slim), provést deflaci, podrýt, podkopat (sap, undermine), omezit (abate, circumscribe, confine, constrict, curb, curtail, cut back, cut down, decrease, limit, narrow, prune, restrict, retrench, scale down, terminate, trammel). (various references)

Farsi		کاهش قیمت , جلوگیری ازتورم کردن . (various references)

French		degonfler, dégonfler (debunk), faire diminuer, faire baisser les prix. (various references)

German		die luft auslassen, Luft ablassen (deflation), enttäuschen (belie, betray, disappoint, disenchant, fail, let down, set straight, to disappoint), eine deflation herbeiführen. (various references)

Greek		ξεφουσκώνω (blow out, puncture), υποτιμώ (belittle, debase, depreciate, depredate, derogate, devalue, disparage, minimize, misjudge, to underestimate, underestimate, underrate, understate, undervalue), ελαττώνω την αξία (devaluate). (various references)

Hungarian		leapaszt (to deflate), kienged (let loose, let out, outlet, surge, thaw out, to come loose, to deflate, to get loose, to let out, to release, to run off, to slacken, to unclasp, to uncoop, to unfold, to veer), kiürül (become deserted, become empty, to empty). (various references)

Indonesian		menggembosi, mengempiskan, mengempeskan. (various references)

Italian		deflazionare, sgonfiare. (various references)

Manx		jee-volgey (deflation), folmaghey (blow out, clear out, deflation, deplenish, depletion, discharge, drain, drink up, empty, evacuation, hollow, unburden, vacate, void). (various references)

Pig Latin		eflateday

Portuguese		esvaziar (bail, bleed, buzz, clean out, clear, crush, deplenish, deplete, dump, empty, gut, pour out, rifle, scoop, turn out, unpack). (various references)

Romanian		dezumfla (collapse, let down, subside), scãdea (abate, abstract, decay, decline, decrease, deduct, depress, derogate from, diminish, drop, dwindle, ebb, fade, fall, go down, lower, recede, reduce, relax, sag, shrink, sink, subside, subtract, take off, wane), reduce preţurile (cut down prices, cut prices), opri (abate, abstain, arrest, balk, bar, baulk, break, bring to, bring to a stop, call off, circumvent, clog, collar, contain, curb, cut off, delay, discontinue, end, estop, forbear, forbid, foreclose, halt, hinder, hold, inhibit, interdict, keep back, phase out, prohibit, pull up, put a stopper on, put out, quench, restrain, retain, shut out, snag, staunch, stay, stem, stop, strangle, subside, taboo, withhold). (various references)

Russian		сокращать выпуск денег, снижать цены (cut, cut prices), выкачивать (pump out), опровергать (belie, confute, contradict, disprove, impugn, negate, negative, rebut, rebutted, rebutting, refute, tear down). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		smanjiti opticaj novca, ispumpati (pump out), ispumpan. (various references)

Spanish		desinflar (let down). (various references)

Swedish		tömmas på luft, tömma på luft, ta luften ur (flatten), släppa luften ur, sänka (abate, bring down, cut, depress, depressed area, depression, fold, hollow, lower, reservoir, reservoir compound, reservoir species, scuttle, send down, sink, sink species, store), få att dämpa ner sig, åstadkomma deflation av. (various references)

Turkish		düşürmek (beat down, cause to fall, curtail, depress, drop, flop, knock off, let down, let fall, lower, mark down, overthrow, precipitate, pull dawn, put down, reduce, roll back, scale down, screw down, send down, sink, slim down, spill, step down, take from, throw, topple over, trip), yükselişe müdahele etmek, söndürmek (attenuate, damp, damp down, dampen, douse, dowse, extinguish, hydrate, kill, put out, quench, slack, slacken, slake, snuff out, suffocate, switch off, trample out, turn off, turn out), havasını boşaltmak, gururunu kırmak (abash), burnunu sürtmek (make a dent in, make smb. eat humble pie, put smb.'s nose out of joint, set down, sit, teach smb.'s lesson). (various references)

Ukranian		викачувати (pump out), випускати повітря. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "deflate": deflated, deflater, deflaters, deflates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Deflate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Davlat, Davlatov, dce-lite, dealate, dealbata, deblate, declate, Defaite, defalt, defat, defaute, defeate, deglupta, Delaitre, deltate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "deflate" (pronounced duflā"t)
4	-f l ā" t	conflate, inflate, reflate.
3	-l ā" t	collate, demodulate, dilate, elate, interrelate, late, oblate, plate, relate, slate, translate.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-f-l-t"
	-1 letter: defeat, deflea, delate, elated, felted, leafed.
	-2 letters: dealt, defat, delft, delta, elate, fated, fetal, feted, fleet, lated, telae.
	-3 letters: alee, alef, daft, dale, date, deaf, deal, deet, deft, dele, delf, delt, fade, fate, feal, feat, feed, feel, feet, felt, feta, fete, flat, flea, fled, flee, lade, late, lead, leaf, leet, left, tael, tale, teal, teed, teel, tela, tele.
	-4 letters: aft, ale, alt, ate, dal, dee, del, eat, eel, eft, eld, elf, eta, fad, fat, fed, fee, fet, lad, lat, lea, led, lee, let, tad, tae, tea, ted, tee, tel.
	-5 letters: ad, ae, al, at, de, ed, ef, el, et, fa, la, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-f-l-t"
	+1 letter: deflated, deflater, deflates, faltered, fellated, reflated.
	+2 letters: defalcate, defaulted, defaulter, deflaters, defoliate, delftware, flattened, flattered, leafleted, refloated.
	+3 letters: affectedly, deadlifted, defalcated, defalcates, defaulters, deflagrate, defoliated, defoliates, delftwares, exfoliated, facelifted, federalist, leafletted, reinflated.
	+4 letters: battlefield, deferential, deflagrated, deflagrates, deflectable, fatheadedly, federalists, felicitated, feudalities, flagellated, forestalled, halfhearted.
	+5 letters: battlefields, defibrillate, differential, federatively, identifiable, multifaceted, overinflated, proliferated, reformulated, softheadedly, ultrarefined, unaffectedly, undefoliated, waterflooded.
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