(transitive) To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g.
"Humor endows us with the capacity the clarify the obscure, the simplify the complex, to deflate the pompous, the chastise the arrogant. to point a moral, and to adorn a tale." John T. McCutcheon, born on this day in…
i ponder of something great, my lungs will fill and then deflate.
(transitive) To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre.
deflate someone's ego
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If as a society, we actually acknowledge the vulnerability of transmasculine people as well as actually see trans men as defining manhood as much as cis men, that would completely deflate the patriarchal drive to for…
(transitive) To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink.
“"Humor endows us with the capacity the clarify the obscure, the simplify the complex, to deflate the pompous, the chastise the arrogant. to point a moral, and to adorn a tale." John T. McCutcheon, born on this day in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, in 1870”
“If as a society, we actually acknowledge the vulnerability of transmasculine people as well as actually see trans men as defining manhood as much as cis men, that would completely deflate the patriarchal drive to force manhood as power and is so dangerous to be unnameable.”
“Tfw you're burping your baby and she lets out a burp so massive that you can feel her entire body deflate”
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(transitive, economics) To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices.
"deflate" means: To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices.. This is a fairly neutral word with no inherent risk attached. There is no real cause for parental concern; it is descriptive vocabulary rather than something dangerous. If your child uses it, context will usually make the meaning clear. A brief, curious question about where they heard it is generally enough to know whether to follow up.
"deflate" means: To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices.. Register: neutral, standard English, usable in most everyday contexts. A common non-native mistake is to use the word in the wrong register, or to assume one fixed meaning when it is actually polysemous; always check the surrounding register and the audience before producing it yourself. In formal writing, prefer a neutral synonym or a short descriptive phrase, and use this word only when you have heard or read it being used naturally in a comparable context.
“i ponder of something great, my lungs will fill and then deflate.”
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