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How to pronounce “deflate”
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Pronunciation guide for deflate
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of deflate with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
would inflate and deflate inflate and
- Definition summary
- (transitive) To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce deflate
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
would inflate and deflate inflate and
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “deflate”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre.
- (transitive) To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink
- (transitive, economics) To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices.
- (intransitive) To become deflated.
- (transitive) To let (someone) down, disappoint them, or put them in their place.
- (transitive, computing) To compress (data) according to a particular algorithm.
- (slang) To belch or flatulate
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