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deflating

/dɪˈfleɪtɪŋ/

deflatinggerund / present participle

/dɪˈfleɪtɪŋ/

Translations

сдувающийся

The deflating balloon slowly descended to the ground.

Сдувающийся шар медленно опустился на землю.

обескураживающий

The deflating news left everyone in the room silent.

Обескураживающие новости оставили всех в комнате в тишине.

Additional translations

опустошающий

уменьшающий

Definitions

Causing someone to feel less confident or less important.

The deflating comments from her boss made her question her abilities.

Reducing the level of something, such as enthusiasm or excitement.

The deflating news about the event's cancellation left everyone disappointed.

Causing air or gas to escape from something; serving to make something smaller or less inflated.

A deflating valve can prevent the balloon from bursting.

Synonyms

deflatingnoun

/dɪˈfleɪtɪŋ/

Gerund noun meaning the act or process of releasing air or reducing volume.

Definitions

The act or process of letting air or gas out of something so that it becomes smaller or less inflated.

The rapid deflating of the life-raft alarmed the crew.

Synonyms

air release

deflateverb

deflating

Gerund

deflated

Past Simple

deflated

Past Participle

deflating

Gerund

/dɪˈfleɪt/

Translations

сдувать

He used a pump to deflate the air mattress.

Он использовал насос, чтобы сдуть надувной матрас.

спускать

She decided to deflate the balloon after the party.

Она решила спустить шарик после вечеринки.

опускать

The news seemed to deflate his enthusiasm.

Новости, казалось, опустили его энтузиазм.

Additional translations

смачиваться

снижаться

ослабевать

Definitions

To release air or gas from something, causing it to shrink or collapse.

He deflated the balloon by letting the air out slowly.

To reduce the level of something, such as prices or importance.

The central bank's policy was designed to deflate the economy to control inflation.

To make someone feel less confident or important.

Her harsh criticism deflated his ego.

To lose air or gas and shrink or collapse.

The air mattress deflated during the night.

Synonyms

let out

Antonyms

deflategerund / present participle

deflating

Used attributively to describe something that causes loss of confidence or value (e.g., "a deflating experience").

Definitions

Causing a loss of confidence, pride, or value; making something or someone feel or appear smaller or less important.

It was a deflating moment when the project was rejected.

Allowing air or gas to escape and therefore shrinking or collapsing.

They pulled over to fix the deflating tire before it went completely flat.

Synonyms

deflatepast participle

Definitions

Having lost air or gas and therefore shrunk or collapsed; figuratively, having lost confidence or enthusiasm.

After the defeat, the team looked utterly deflated.

deflateproper noun

Definitions

A lossless data-compression algorithm that combines LZ77 sliding-window compression with Huffman coding, widely used in ZIP, gzip, and PNG formats.

PNG images are compressed using DEFLATE to reduce their file size.