🎈 To fill with air 📈 To raise prices 💪 To restore confidence

to reinflate

1 5.8

To make someone feel more confident after criticism or failure

verb
/ˌriːɪnˈfleɪt/

: recuperar

Compliments from friends can quickly reinflate your sense of self-worth.

Examples

Can we reinflate the team's morale before the finals?
The coach tried to reinflate the team's confidence following their unexpected loss.
A few kind words helped to reinflate her self-esteem after the criticism.
She tried to reinflate his confidence after the setback.
After her disappointing performance, her coach worked hard to reinflate her confidence by praising her efforts.
To help him feel better after the criticism, his friends organized a celebration to reinflate his self-esteem.
The motivational speech was meant to reinflate the team's morale before the big game.

Synonyms

to restore

vsto reinflate

234 3.8

Make someone feel healthy and full of energy again

focuses specifically on repairing damaged pride and self-importance

to redeem

vsto reinflate

57 6.1

Make someone or something respected again after a mistake

focuses on inner pride and self-importance rather than public standing

to rekindle

vsto reinflate

33 5.1

Make a feeling or interest strong again

applies specifically to recovering pride or self-importance after damage

to reinvigorate

vsto reinflate

19 5.7

To give new energy and interest to a person or thing

targets social pride and self-importance rather than general energy

to reenergize

vsto reinflate

3 4.1

To give new energy and enthusiasm to a person or thing

focuses on restoring personal pride and confidence not just energy

to bolster confidence

vsto reinflate

1 4.0

To make someone feel more sure of themselves

restores confidence specifically after it has been reduced or damaged

to regain trust

vsto reinflate

1 3.9

To win back someone's trust after you lost it

restores the person's own pride and self-importance rather than others' trust

to refortify

vsto reinflate

7.0

Make someone's confidence or determination strong again after it becomes weak

targets personal pride or self-importance rather than general strength

to reinstill

vsto reinflate

5.9

Bring a feeling, idea or quality back into people

works specifically to recover pride or self-importance after harm

to reinfuse

vsto reinflate

6.5

To make people or things feel more energetic again

aims specifically to bring back damaged pride or self-worth

to reinspire

vsto reinflate

5.6

To make someone feel excited and ready to try new things

is about restoring self-regard and pride rather than inspiration

to reconsolidate

vsto reinflate

7.0

To make something firm and strong again after it is damaged

is narrower, aimed at rebuilding personal pride rather than physical firmness

to restrengthen

vsto reinflate

6.6

To make someone or something able to work well again

focuses on recovering social pride and self-importance instead of general strength

to reflate

vsto reinflate

8.1

To fill a tire, balloon, or mattress with air again after it lost air

is metaphorical and aims at restoring damaged pride rather than literal inflation

Antonyms

to humiliate

Offensive

414 6.1

Make someone feel very ashamed and foolish, often in front of others

to diminish

89 4.7

Make a person or thing seem less important

How Confident

to reinflate

1 5.8

to reassure

163 3.4

to bolster

84 4.3

to encourage

∞ 2.3

Surface Forms

reinflate infinitive

reinflated past

reinflated past participle

reinflating present participle

reinflates third person singular

Morphology

reinflate = inflate (semi-transparent) = re + inflate

The prefix 're-' is regular, but this figurative emotional use of 'inflate' is somewhat metaphorical rather than fully literal.

Etymology

A helpful way to remember reinflate is to split it into re- 'again' and inflate 'to fill with air'; think of confidence as something you can 'fill'. So to reinflate someone's pride or self-esteem is to 'fill them up' with confidence again.