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deflated

/dih-fleyt/US // dɪˈfleɪt //UK // (dɪˈfleɪt) //

瘪了的,瘪瘪的,瘪了,瘪陷的

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v.有主动词 verb
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    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.
v.无主动词 verb
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    de·flat·ed, de·flat·ing.

    • : to become deflated.

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Examples

  • 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.