Dictionary entry

Deflate

Pronunciation: /dɪˈfleɪt/

Pronunciation

/dɪˈfleɪt/

Myanmar Meaning

(vt) (ကားဘီး၊ပူစီဖောင်းတို့ထဲမှ)လေလျှော့သည်။ငွေကြေးဖောင်းပွမှု လျော့ပါးစေရန် အရေးယူဆောင်ရွက်သည်။

Definition

deflate v ၁။ /di:'fleÇt, dÇ-/ (က) တာယာစသည္ ေလေလွ်ာ့သည္။ (ခ) (တာယာစသည္) ေလေလ်ာ့ေနသည္။ (ေလမရိွျဖစ္သည္။ ) ၂။ /dÇ'fleÇt/ သိမ္ငယ္ေစသည္။ စိတ္ဓာတ္က်ေစသည္။ I felt really deflated by your nasty remark. ❍ Nothing could deflate his ego. ၃။ /di:'fleÇt/ (ကုန္ေဈးႏႈန္း က်ဆင္း တည္ၿငိမ္ေစရန္ အစိုးရ) အသံုးစရိတ္ေလွ်ာ့ခ်သည္။ The government were forced to deflate (the economy). Compare INFLATE ၃, REFLATE ❏ deflation /-eÇʃn/ n [U] ေလွ်ာ့ျခင္း။ ေလွ်ာ့ခ်ျခင္း။ သိမ္ငယ္ေစျခင္း။ deflationary /di:'fleÇʃnǝri; US -neri/ adj : a deflationary policy/measure.

Examples

  1. Peter’s comments completely deflated the boy’s confidence.
  2. A comment intended to deflate rumours that the President is ill