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