deflated 的 2 个定义
de·flat·ed, de·flat·ing.
- to release the air or gas from: They deflated the tires slightly to allow the truck to drive under the overpass.
- to depress or reduce; puncture; dash: Her rebuff thoroughly deflated me.
- to reduce from an inflated condition; to affect with deflation.
de·flat·ed, de·flat·ing.
- to become deflated.
deflated 近义词
reduced
更多deflated例句
- Like many other Bitcoin boosters, Okung has claimed the cryptocurrency is superior to traditional currencies because governments can’t deflate its value.
- Groveling, meanwhile, only serves to deflate you while inflating the foot in your mouth.
- To rupture the internal logic of these toys, and to deflate the operational mandate of industrialization, requires more than just offering interoperability.
- What you want is a handbrake, where you can slowly bring down the momentum in the market so that it can deflate without exploding.
- Most balloons these days are made with separate chambers—the arms, the head, the body—so that the whole balloon will not deflate should a hole appear in one part of the balloon.
- Papers sent reporters along the old Route 66 in search of the deflated American dream.
- For the moment, the heady visions of victory after the state remap are clearly deflated.
- Gore stood up to challenge Bush in this 2000 debate, but got flummoxed and deflated by a simple nod.
- But if Strauss-Kahn's case is dismissed, or deflated to a misdemeanor, the question will be how thick that line is, in fact.
- And numbed out, having escaped death on 9/11, notes the World Trade Center “towers collapsing like a deflated carnival castle.”
- Pride's only for use when wit breaks down—it's the train the cyclist takes when his tire's deflated.
- Toryl, somewhat deflated, but by no means defeated, hastened to elucidate.
- When they reach Tekrit they leave the poles there, and start up-stream on foot, carrying their deflated goatskins.
- He sprang into the pen, and before Nicodemus could arrive, was back on the fence with the deflated ball.
- She was sorry for him; it was worse for him to have this deflated love than for herself, who could never be properly mated.