deflated

deflated (comparative more deflated, superlative most deflated)

1. Empty of all the air or gas that was or could be inside.
   • 1924 August 1, “The Drop-Center Rim”, in Automobile Trade Journal, volume 29, number 2, page 45:

     While, of course it is not advisable to run on a deflated tire, tests have been made which showed that this type of tire was not damaged after it was running several miles.

   • 1974, Shoichi Sano, “Steering and Handling Characteristics of a Vehicle when Fail-safe Tire is Deflated”, in Fifth International Technical Conference on Experimental Safety Vehicles, page 909:

     Except for turnings with a deflated rear tire as an outerside tire, difference in the performance is small between fixed control and manual control.

   • 2009, John D. Cutnell, ‎Kenneth W. Johnson, Physics, page 206:

     The very deflated basketball in part c has no bounce at all, and a maxiumu amount of kinetic energy is lost during the completely inelastic collision.

   • 2013, Q. Ashton Acton, Advances in Surgery Research and Application:

     According to an aspect of some embodiments of the present invention there is provided a method for dissecting tissue, including inserting an inflatable bladder, in a deflated state, via an introducer tube, into a space in a body, and inflating the bladder to a substantially planar form, thereby dissecting tissue.

   • 2021, Adam Boxer, Teaching Secondary Science:

     She puts a deflated balloon on a balance and shows the students that it has a mass of 10 g.

2. (figurative) Disappointed; depressed, especially after having been hopeful or in high spirits.
   • 2013, Irene Taylor, The Chateau:

     I sat down in the lounge at K.G. very deflated and also concerned.

   • 2015, David Richo, You Are Not What You Think, page 67:

     Our self-esteem is so low, our healthy ego so deflated, that we can't imagine having a life that is truly free.

   • 2018, Ralph De La Rosa, The Monkey Is the Messenger, page 208:

     Hurt and disappointment are very deflated states to be in, with little energy to them.

   • 2021, Jordan Wylie, The Power of the Paddle:

     So, some very deflated people trudged back into the hotel bar to drown their sorrows.

   • 2023, Rhea Alexander, ‎Rose Pember, ‎Joseph Press, A Design Driven Guide for Entrepreneurs:

     At this point, the entrepreneur's world is going to feel a lot like: […] A deflated dead-end

   • 2024 November 21, Deborah Cole, “Merkel: I mistook Trump for ‘someone completely normal’”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     On the flight home after their first talks, a deflated Merkel concluded that Trump “looked at everything like the real estate developer he was before he entered politics” – as a zero-sum game.

3. Reduced or lowered.
   • 1976, Jan J. Loubser, Explorations in General Theory in Social Science, page 602:

     Instead, a terrific escalation of corporate rivalries was combined with a deflated power medium and an exceedingly inflated influence medium, particularly in the area of purely technical expertise.

   • 2007, Dirk Greimann, ‎Geo Siegwart, Truth and Speech Acts: Studies in the Philosophy of Language, page 62:

     We will thus be left with a deflated concept of truth — a "thin" concept whose understanding is exhausted by the deflationary account of "true," a concept that is isolated from all other concepts of interest to us and can play no substantive explanatory role with respect to them.

   • 2013, Vicki Kirby, Quantum Anthropologies: Life at Large, page 24:

     A dead person's tissue depths are a little more deflated than in life however, and as these were relatively small samples that took little account of human diversity markers, reconstruction techniques were no more than loose guidelines.

   • 2023, Raymond Auerback, “Just How Testimonial, Epistemic, Or Correctable is Testimonial Injustice?”, in Melanie Altanian, ‎Maria Baghramian, editor, Testimonial Injustice and Trust:

     In her book Epistemic Injustice: Power & the Ethics of Knowing, Miranda Fricker argues that there is a distinctly epistemic kind of injustice, which she calls testimonial injustice, resulting from identity-prejudicial credibility deficit— identity prejudice causing a hearer to give a deflated level of credibility to a speaker's word.

4. (economics) Adjusted downward to compensate for inflation.
   • 1949 September, Irwin Friend, “Personal Saving in the Postwar Period”, in Survey of Current Business, volume 29, number 9:

     Among these relationships are the correlation for the years 1923-40 of personal saving and disposable personal income in current dollars, the correlation of deflated per capita saving with deflated per capita income, the correlation of saving with income and accumulated liquid assets on a deflated per capita basis, the correlation of deflated per capita saving with income and a cyclical variable such as the ratio of current to past peak income, and the correlation of the ratio of saving to income with a cyclical variable alone.

   • 1971, United States. Commission on International Trade and Investment Policy, United States International Economic Policy in an Interdependent World, page 508:

     In general, the output measure used in calculating these indexes is based on a deflated value concept and is developed in the following way:

   • 1995 July, Kent Kunze, Mary Jablonski, Virginia Klarquist, “BLS Modernizes Industry Labor Productivity Program”, in Monthly Labor Review, volume 118, number 7, page 6:

     Output indexes are developed as a deflated value of production or physical quantity of production of an industry.

5. (economics) Suffering from deflation.
   • 1961, Inventory Fluctuations and Economic Stabilization:

     The result is striking: durables unfilled orders fell almost continuously from the beginning of 1947 until the end of the recession, and there was only a submerged second cycle in the deflated purchased-materials investment series.

   • 1969, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations, District of Columbia Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1970, page 1194:

     I am not talking about a deflated economy.

   • 1971, National Industrial Conference Board, The Conference Board Record - Volume 8, page 4:

     Secondly, the cyclical expansion now taking shape in the United States is starting from a relatively high level; it has much less headroom than earlier expansions that began from a deeply deflated recession base.

   • 2003, William Krehm, Towards a Non-autistic Economy - a Place at the Table for Society, page 41:

     A deflated economy also gives rise to the need for more social services at the very time that it cuts the tax-base.

6. (geoarchaeology) Subsided or compressed downward.
   • 1986, Fred Wendorf, ‎Romuald Schild, ‎Angela E. Close, Late Paleolithic Archaeology, page 365:

     A deflated hearth, about 5 m² in area, lay on the northernmost section of the surface concentration.

   • 1987, A. Nigel Goring-Morris, At the Edge: Terminal Pleistocene Hunter-gatherers in the Negev and Sinai, page 73:

     Located on a deflated sandy surface 100m east of Azariq I, this was apparently a small 40 m2, transitional Kebaran/Geometric Kebaran occupation which was largely destroyed by tracked vehicles following discovery.

   • 1992, Michael R. Waters, Principles of Geoarchaeology: A North American Perspective, page 196:

     If more than one archaeological horizon was present in the dune prior to deflation, the artifacts from each horizon become mixed on the deflated surface.

deflated

1. simple past and past participle of deflate