Object

• economy: To deflate the economy means to set out to deliberately reduce the level of economic activity.

• price: Many sellers are nervous that management have kept back good news so as to deflate the purchase price.

Modifying Another Word

• gently: It did not cause it to burst but rather to deflate gently.

Object

• tire: Some 400 hundred miles later the rear tire deflated to be followed 6 miles later by the front tire.

• castle: The deflated bouncy castle landed on the hippo repair man.

• ego: It can walk away having suffered no more than a little bruised pride and a deflated ego.

Preposition: for

• storage: Can be inflated with in minutes and are quickly deflated for easy storage.

Modifying Another Word

• slowly: At the end of the festival the unusual erection will be slowly deflated, leaving no trace of its existence.

• somewhat: The list returned to the bar in dribs and drabs, somewhat deflated.

• slightly: Yet I still came away slightly deflated - it was just too easy.

• quickly: Can be inflated with in minutes and are quickly deflated for easy storage.

Preposition: at

• interval: This catheter has a small balloon attached at one end, which is inflated and deflated at regular intervals by a machine.