deflate

If the implementation is just a bit insecure, a hole is opened on the boundary: the balloon deflates or, worst case, explodes.

As she stands there, ignored by you and her friends, and no longer the center of attention, her social value deflates like a popped balloon.

But as the housing bubble deflates, it also drags innocent victims into a wave of fore- closures.

And if one deflates these data for growth of population, so, income or product per head, they reduce to 1 or 2 percent a year.

Beyond such mundane geopolitical rivalries, the US has a more profound reason to conserve its helium: Every balloon inevitably deflates.

The balloon moves fast as it deflates , but Prof. Sun has his doubts about Mr. Ma's theory.

When a bubble deflates, the price must fall to where incomes and returns can support each other.

When the market deflates, these stocks will come down but the companies will still be around.

Then there is the chance that, as the housing bubble in China deflates, investors desperate for yield will force up stocks instead.

If one deflates the price of crude oil in the same way, it is more expensive than at any time since 1970.

This blast deflates the field of another.

Wind power in America, for example, inflates and deflates on a two-year cycle, as a particular tax credit is renewed and then lapses again.

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