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inflate - deflate
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there are so many great thoughts that do nothing more than the bellows: they inflate, and make emptier than ever.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
In three months, at most, I shall be at Zanzibar, where I will inflate my balloon, and from that point we shall launch ourselves.
Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules View in context
The tank of soapsuds, and the air-pumps to inflate the bubbles, were out of sight beneath, so that when the bubbles began to grow upon the floor of the platform it really seemed like magic to the people of Oz, who knew nothing about even the common soap-bubbles that our children blow with a penny clay pipe and a basin of soap-and-water.
The Road to Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
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