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