Antonyms for deflate

Grammar : Verb

Spell : dih-fleyt

Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈfleɪt

Definition of deflate

Origin : 1891, in reference to balloons, coinage based on inflate. Latin deflare meant "to blow away," but in the modern word the prefix is taken in the sense of "down." Related: Deflated; deflating.

verb reduce or cause to contract
verb humiliate

Example sentences :

But Millaird's tone, intended to deflate, had no effect on the major.
Extract from : « The Time Traders » by Andre Norton

On landing they would solemnly don their clothes, deflate the skins, and go their way.
Extract from : « War in the Garden of Eden » by Kermit Roosevelt

German cockroaches may attack newly molted nymphs of their own kind and cause them to deflate (Gould and Deay, 1938).
Extract from : « The Biotic Associations of Cockroaches » by Louis M. Roth

It seemed most everyone was rushing to deflate the pizza bubble and end our love affair with the anchovy.
Extract from : « The Land of Look Behind » by Paul Cameron Brown

It may tend to deflate our ego to think that there may be intelligent beings not too different from us who are advanced beyond us.
Extract from : « The Four-Faced Visitors of Ezekiel » by Arthur W. Orton

A reference to the elegant contingency of Gatton sufficed to deflate a good deal of eloquence.
Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford

Synonyms for deflate

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