[{"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to release the air or gas from (something inflated, as a balloon):They deflated the tires slightly to allow the truck to drive under the overpass.", "to depress or reduce (a person or a person's ego, hopes, spirits, etc.); puncture; dash:Her rebuff thoroughly deflated me.", "to reduce (currency, prices, etc.) from an inflated condition; to affect with deflation ."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to become deflated."]}]