Deflating [verb]

Definition of Deflating:

reduce or cause to contract

Synonyms of Deflating:

● Depress

● Exhaust

● Diminish

● Collapse

● Void

● Squash

● Devalue

● Decrease

● Depreciate

● Puncture

● Shrink

● Empty

● Flatten


Opposite/Antonyms of Deflating:

● Boost

● Blow up

● Expand

● Develop

● Raise

● Build up

● Inflate

● Grow

● Enlarge

● Increase


Sentence/Example of Deflating:

The best filled paunches cannot resist them; deflating little by little, they make the heaviest light.

"This piece of orange peel," he began, addressing our CO., and rapidly deflating the while.

Anxiety seemed to be a physical thing deflating my breast and loins.

Her gas escaped to mix with air, and the air of her rent balloonette poured into her deflating gas-chambers.