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What does deflating mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of deflate
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About 10 minutes later, small air pockets throughout the mattress begin inflating and deflating to produce a gentle rocking motion.
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 30-year-old winger is equally adept at deflating the opposition with a short-handed goal or a game-winner.
Their comprehensive Champions League defeat by Bayern Munich was deflating, but the Germans were operating on a different plane this year.
Tesha raised an eyebrow and poked Marl in the stomach, deflating his puffed-up chest.

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