Definition of "deflate" [de•flate]

• To release contained air or gas from. (verb-transitive)
• To collapse by releasing contained air or gas. (verb-transitive)
• To reduce or lessen the size or importance of: Losing the contest deflated my ego. (verb-transitive)
• Economics To reduce the amount or availability of (currency or credit), effecting a decline in prices. (verb-transitive)
• Economics To produce deflation in (an economy). (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Drop the dough in (it will deflate, which is fine) and spread it vaguely around the pan."
• "The AHA363-PCIE adapter card is compliant with open standard compression algorithm GZIP - also known as deflate - for the highest performance of any hardware compression solution on the market today."
• "One sexual partner will "deflate" one end of the blossom by squeezing all the internal fluid to the other end, then insert the deflated end inside her vagina."