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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abasement, abatement, abridgment, alleviation, attenuation, break, breakdown, cave-in, cheapening, collapse, comedown, contraction, crash, cropper, cut, dampening, damping, debasement, decline, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, depreciation, depression, descent, devaluation, diminishment, diminution, disgrace, dive, downfall, dump, dying, dying off, embarrassment, extenuation, fade-out, fall, hangdog look, humbled pride, humiliation, implosion, languishment, lessening, letdown, letup, lowering, markdown, miniaturization, mitigation, mortification, nose dive, plummet, plummeting, plunge, pratfall, price cut, price fall, price reduction, prostration, put-down, reduction, relaxation, sag, sagging, scaling down, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-diminishment, setdown, shame, shamefacedness, shamefastness, simplicity, slash, slump, smash, stumble, subtraction, tailspin, tumble, weakening
Dictionary Results for deflation:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
deflation
    n 1: (geology) the erosion of soil as a consequence of sand and
         dust and loose rocks being removed by the wind; "a constant
         deflation of the desert landscape"
    2: a contraction of economic activity resulting in a decline of
       prices [ant: disinflation, inflation, rising prices]
    3: the act of letting the air out of something [ant:
       inflation]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
deflation \deflation\ n.
   1. the act or process of deflating.
      [PJC]

   2. a fall in the average prices of goods and services; --
      usually associated with contraction of economic activity.
      Opposite of inflation. Compare disinflation.
      [PJC]

   3. the reduction of available credit or a contraction of
      economic activity resulting from or associated with a
      decline of prices.
      [WordNet 1.5]

   4. the act of letting the air out of something.
      [WordNet 1.5]

   5. (Geol.) the erosion of land structures such as sand or
      soil due to the action of wind. --RHUD
      [PJC]

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