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   deflation

   /ˌdiːˈfleɪʃn/

   noun

   • 1. the action or process of deflating or being deflated: "the deflation of the illusion that the 1960s were a perpetual party"
   • 2. reduction of the general level of prices in an economy: "a time of high unemployment and deflation"
   • 3. the removal of particles of rock, sand, etc. by the wind.

   Word Origin late 19th century (in the sense ‘release of air from something inflated’): from deflate; deflation (sense 3) via German from Latin deflat- ‘blown away’, from the verb deflare.

   Derivatives

   • 1. deflationist noun

   Scrabble Points: 13

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