Flate vs Deflate - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between flate and deflate

is that flate is to feel nausea while deflate is to cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink.

(flat)

(obsolete) To feel nausea.

* (l) ----

(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.

* inflate