deflate

Other forms of deflate

past tense

deflated·

present participle

deflating·

third person

deflates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about deflate

What does deflate mean?

deflate means "collapse by releasing contained air or gas". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in deflate?

deflate has 2 syllables: de-flate. The stress falls on "flate". In IPA it is /dɪˈfleɪt/.

What is another word for deflate?

Close synonyms include puncture. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of deflate?

The recorded antonyms are inflate, inflate, inflate.

Is deflate a common word?

deflate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with deflate?

3 words rhyme with deflate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.