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Deflated vs Deflate - What's the difference?

deflated | deflate |

As verbs the difference between deflated and deflate

is that deflated is past tense of deflate while deflate is to cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink.

deflated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (deflate)

  • deflate

    English

    Verb

    (deflat)
  • To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink
  • (economics) To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices.
  • To become deflated.
  • To let down or disappoint.
  • To compress (data) according to a particular algorithm.
  • Antonyms

    * inflate

    deflate

    English

    Verb

    (deflat)
  • To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink
  • (economics) To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices.
  • To become deflated.
  • To let down or disappoint.
  • To compress (data) according to a particular algorithm.
  • Antonyms

    * inflate