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deflate 音标拼音: [dɪfl'et] vt. 放气,抽出空气,使缩小
vi. 缩小 放气,抽出空气,使缩小缩小 deflate v 1: collapse by releasing contained air or gas; "deflate a balloon" 2: release contained air or gas from; "deflate the air mattress" 3: reduce or lessen the size or importance of; "The bad review of his work deflated his self-confidence" [synonym: {deflate}, {puncture}] 4: produce deflation in; "The new measures deflated the economy" [ant: {inflate}] 5: reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices; "deflate the currency" [ant: {inflate}] 6: become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air; "The balloons deflated" [ant: {blow up}, {inflate}] deflate \de*flate"\, v. t. [Pref. de- down L. flare, flatus to blow.] To reduce from an inflated condition; used literally and metaphorically; as, to deflate a tire; to deflate expectations. [1913 Webster PJC] 93 Moby Thesaurus words for "deflate": abridge, beat down, belie, blow sky-high, blow up, break, cave, cave in, cheapen, collapse, compress, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut prices, damp, dampen, decline, decrease, deduct, depreciate, depress, devaluate, diminish, disarm, disconfirm, discredit, disgrace, disprove, dive, downgrade, embarrass, enchain, explode, expose, fall, fall in, fall in price, fold, fold up, gag, give way, hamstring, handcuff, hobble, hog-tie, humble, humiliate, implode, invalidate, jew down, knock out, lessen, let down, lower, manacle, mark down, mortify, muzzle, negate, negative, nose-dive, paralyze, pare, plummet, plunge, prostrate, prove the contrary, puncture, put out, put to shame, reduce, retrench, roll back, sag, scale down, shame, shave, shorten, show up, silence, simplify, slash, slump, step down, strangle, take from, throttle, trim, truss up, tune down, undercut from {LZ77}; it is reportedly used in {zip}, {gzip}, {PKZIP}, and {png}, among others. Unlike {LZW}, deflate compression does not use patented compression {algorithms}. Used as a verb to mean to compress (not decompress!) a file which has been compressed using deflate compression. The opposite, {inflate}, means to decompress data which has been deflated. Deflate is described in {RFC 1951}. (1997-06-21)
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