deflate

英 [dɪ'fleɪt] 美 [dɪ'fleɪt]

• v. 放气；泄气；紧缩；降低

英英释义

Verb:

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"
   

4. produce deflation in;

   "The new measures deflated the economy"
   

5. reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices;

   "deflate the currency"
   

6. become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air;

   "The balloons deflated"
   

例句

用作动词 (v.)

1. They deflated the tires slightly to allow the truck to drive under the overpass.
   他们稍微放掉车胎的气以让卡车在跨线桥下行驶。
2. One sharp remark is enough to deflate her.
   一句尖锐的话足以使她泄气。
3. I felt quite deflated by your nasty remark.
   你那些难听的话使我觉得无地自容。
4. The Government decided to deflate.
   政府决定紧缩通货。

经典引文

• The train the cyclist takes when his tyre's deflated.

  出自： H. James

词汇搭配

• deflate the economy 紧缩经济

近反义词

【近义词】

• puncture 刺穿
• lower 低的
• depress 使沮丧
• shrink 收缩
• collapse （使）倒塌
• reduce 减少
• decrease 减少
• devalue 贬值
• let down 放下
• put down 镇压
• wind 风
• go down 下降，下跌
• contract 合同
• belittle 轻视
• squash 壁球
• quash 镇压
• snub 冷落
• dispirit 使沮丧
• mortify 使 ... 受辱
• dishearten 使沮丧
• exhaust 使筋疲力尽
• flatter 奉承
• empty 空的
• humiliate 使 ... 蒙羞
• discourage 阻碍
• let 让
• the 那
• diminish 减少
• deplete 耗尽
• depreciate 贬值
• out 出
• flatten 使变平
• impute 归罪于
• demoralize 使士气低落
• blow out 吹灭(突然爆裂...
• despair 绝望
• down 向下
• take the wind out of one's sails 先发制人而占one's上...
• pump 泵
• into 到 ... 里
• take 拿
• put 放
• of 关于
• a 英语字母表的第一个字母...
• peg 钉
• one's 任何人的
• spirits 精力
• plunge 使投入
• sails 动词sail的第三人称单...
• air 空气
• release 释放
• blow 打击
• from 出自

【反义词】

• inflate 使膨胀