transcription, транскрипция: [ dɪfleɪt ]
( deflates, deflating, deflated)
1.
If you deflate someone or something, you take away their confidence or make them seem less important.
Britain’s other hopes of medals were deflated earlier in the day.
VERB : V n
• de‧flat‧ed
When she refused I felt deflated.
ADJ
2.
When something such as a tyre or balloon deflates , or when you deflate it, all the air comes out of it.
When it returns to shore, the life-jacket will deflate and revert to a harness...
We deflate the tyres to make it easier to cross the desert.
≠ inflate
VERB : V , V n