deflation

contraction, reduction, diminution; decrease of size; defalcation, decrement; lessening, shrinking; compaction; tabes, collapse, emaciation, attenuation, tabefaction, consumption, marasmus, atrophy; systole, neck, hourglass., condensation, compression, compactness; compendium; squeezing; strangulation; corrugation; astringency; astringents, sclerotics; contractility, compressibility; coarctation., inferiority in size.

become small, become smaller; lessen, decrease; grow less, dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh, wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb; decay (deteriorate)., be smaller than, fall short of; not come up to (be inferior)., render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow, coarctate; boil down; constrict, constringe; condense, compress, squeeze, corrugate, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, stow; pinch, tighten, strangle; cramp; dwarf, bedwarf; shorten; circumscribe; restrain., pare, reduce, attenuate, rub down, scrape, file, grind, chip, shave, shear.

contracting; astringent; shrunk, contracted; strangulated, tabid, wizened, stunted; waning; neap, compact., unexpanded (expand [more]); contractile; compressible; smaller (small [more]).

lowering; depression; dip (concavity); abasement; detrusion; reduction., overthrow, overset, overturn; upset; prostration, subversion, precipitation., bow; courtesy, curtsy; genuflexion, genuflection, kowtow, obeisance, salaam.

depress, lower, let down, take down, let down a peg, take down a peg; cast; let drop, let fall; sink, debase, bring low, abase, reduce, detrude, pitch, precipitate., overthrow, overturn, overset; upset, subvert, prostate, level, fell; cast down, take down, throw down, fling down, dash down, pull down, cut down, knock down, hew down; rase to the ground; trample in the dust, pull about one's ears., sit, sit down; couch, squat, crouch, stoop, bend, bow; courtesy, curtsy; bob, duck, dip, kneel; bend the knee, bow the knee, bend the head, bow the head; cower; recline (be horizontal).

depressed; at a low ebb; prostrate (horizontal); detrusive.

recession, retirement, withdrawal; retreat; retrocession; departure, [more]; recoil; flight (avoidance).

recede, go, move back, move from, retire; withdraw, shirink; come away, move away, go away, get away, drift away; depart; retreat; move off, stand off, sheer off; fall back, stand aside; run away (avoid)., remove, shunt.

receding.