defame

v : charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good

name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have

defamed me!" The article in the paper sullied my

reputation" [syn: {slander}, {smirch}, {asperse}, {denigrate},

{calumniate}, {smear}, {sully}, {besmirch}]

deflate

A {compression} {standard} derived

from {LZ77}; it is reportedly used in {zip}, {gzip}, {PKZIP},

and {png}, among others.

Unlike {LZW}, deflate compression does not use patented

compression {algorithms}.

Used as a verb to mean to compress (not decompress!) a file

which has been compressed using deflate compression. The

opposite, {inflate}, means to decompress data which has been

deflated.

Deflate is described in {RFC 1951}.

(1997-06-21)