Reinflated

Part of speech: verb, adjective

Definitions

1. To restore air or gas to a previously deflated object or to cause something to regain its inflated state; to revitalize or renew something that had lost momentum or effectiveness; to reinstate an economic or financial condition that had previously diminished
2. The act of filling an empty or flattened item with air or gas again; the process of reinvigorating a concept, plan, or status that was previously reduced; the restoration of previous inflated economic levels or values
3. Refilling an object with air or gas that had lost it before; bringing back to strength, energy, or operability a system or condition that had deteriorated; restoring economic or financial inflation after a period of decline

Etymology: "Reinflated" is a plain English build: the prefix "re-" (again, anew) attached to "inflated," the past participle of "inflate." "Inflate" comes from the Latin "inflare," meaning "to blow into" or "to blow up," formed from "in-" (into) and "flare" (to blow). That Latin root also gave English "inflation" and "flatulence," which share the same sense of air being blown into something. The earliest sense of "inflate" was literal and physical: blowing up a bladder, a bellows-filled object, or a balloon, and it entered English in the 1600s. The economic sense, a general rise in prices, came much later, in the 1800s, when "inflation" began to describe a swelling of paper money. "Reinflated" inherits that economic sense naturally: a currency or asset that deflated can be made to swell again. The adjective and verb uses here are both straightforward extensions of the same physical image.

Synonyms: reexpanded, re-inflated, re-pumped

Antonyms: deflated, collapsed, decompressed