dégonfler — meaning in English
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English meaning
- deflate verb To let air or gas out of something.
Senses
dégonfler is used for these senses in English:
- bottle out (UK, informal) To fail to perform a promised or planned action due to lack of courage or nerve; to run away or back down from a contest or challenge.
- deflate (transitive) To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink
deflate — full definition
- verb To let air or gas out of something.
- verb To make someone feel suddenly less confident or excited.
- verb To reduce the amount of money in circulation, lowering prices.