What is "deflating"

Usage examples of "deflating".

He particularly liked deflating Kenny's—he had said more than once that everyone else was so afraid of being "unkind to the poor cripple" that they danced on eggs to avoid telling him when he was full of it.

Polyon waited, one booted foot contracting as he tapped it, stretching and looping over itself like a snake, then deflating again into the normal form of a regulation Academy boot.

Its blood-smeared mouth opened and it hoisted itself, lower legs scrabbling for purchase on its mother’s deflating belly, upper ones almost seeming to shadowbox at Susannah.

A moment later it burrowed into the hole it had made, the white human face disappearing while Mia’s was obliterated by the dust boiling out of her deflating head.

Feemalo and Fumalo, now just a couple of dead old men, were rotting with unnatural rapidity, their parchment skins deflating toward the bone and oozing slack rivulets of pus.

Its blood-smeared mouth opened and it hoisted itself, lower legs scrabbling for purchase on its mother's deflating belly, upper ones almost seeming to shadowbox at Susannah.

A moment later it burrowed into the hole it had made, the white human face disappearing while Mia's was obliterated by the dust boiling out of her deflating head.

Feemalo and Fumalo, nowjust a couple of dead old men, were rotting with unnatural rapidity, their parch­ment skins deflating toward the bone and oozing slack rivulets of pus.

It could not have been much more than a matter of seconds, because her air bag was still in the process of deflating when realization hit her.

A hellhawk slid out, deflating its distortion field immediately, and drifting inert.

It snapped off just above the bearing and took flight, deflating into a flaccid carcass beneath the short-lived fireballs puffing open across its superficies.

Karen began to have a deflating suspicion that she was not the object of Simon's interest.

She felt sure she would sleep soundly, in spite of Simon's deflating, depressing, devastatingly accurate analysis.

A rather plump dwarf, fully arrayed in battle gear, entered the audience hall, the seriousness of his expres­sion deflating the mirth in the tasting chamber.

Dunkin snapped, deflating the drow and dismissing his grandiose speech.