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Verb: reflate  ree'fleyt
  1. Raise demand, expand the money supply, or raise prices, after a period of deflation
    "These measures reflated the economy"
     
  2. Experience reflation
    "The economy reflated after the Fed took extreme measures"
     
  3. Inflate again
    "reflate the balloon"
     
  4. Become inflated again
    "The economy reflated after the recession"

Derived forms: reflated, reflating, reflates

Type of: balloon, billow, blow up, change, enhance, heighten, increase, inflate, raise