The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word DEFLATES which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 1964.
Punctures one's balloon crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| DEFLATES | 100 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Punctures one's balloon
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- mine
- bowl
- bowled
- mole
- drift
- drone
- droning
- golf
- jook
- pitch
- pitched
- round
Crossword Answer definitions
DEFLATES verb- To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre
- To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink
- To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices.
- To become deflated.
- To let down or disappoint.
- To compress (data) according to a particular algorithm.
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