Dictionary and Thesaurus entries for: deflate Your search results... deflate [v] 1) collapse by releasing contained air or gas; "deflate a balloon"
Synonyms : See Also: collapse deflation 2) release contained air or gas from; "deflate the air mattress"
Synonyms : See Also: release deflation 3) reduce or lessen the size or importance of; "The bad review of his work deflated his self-confidence"
Synonyms : puncture See Also: deprecate deflator 4) produce deflation in; "The new measures deflated the economy"
Synonyms : See Also: alter deflation inflate 5) reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices; "deflate the currency"
Synonyms : See Also: bring_down deflation inflate 6) become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air; "The balloons deflated"
Synonyms : See Also: decrease deflation blow_up
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe) A compression standard derived from LZ77 ; it is reportedly used in zip , gzip , PKZIP , and png , among others.LZW , deflate compression does not use patented compression algorithms .inflate , means to decompress data which has been deflated.RFC 1951 .
