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What does deflating mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of deflate
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The open admiration in her eyes was hard to bear, but deflating it was even harder.
Each learned in her own way how to confront her husband about his shortcomings, limitations, or failures without compounding them or deflating him.
The normally stable alveoli that change volume minimally during ventilation become unstable inflating and deflating with each breath, similar to a balloon.
It took police one and a half hours to extract the lorry by deflating its tyres.
It's now or never for Poland and this could either be one of the most exhilarating nights in their history or one of the most deflating.
Their comprehensive Champions League defeat by Bayern Munich was deflating, but the Germans were operating on a different plane this year.

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