the act of letting the air out of something | the act of filling something with air |
a contraction of economic activity resulting in a decline of prices | lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity |
(geology) the erosion of soil as a consequence of sand and dust and loose rocks being removed by the wind | (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang |
| a general and progressive increase in prices |