Bloat

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To cause to swell up or inflate, as with liquid or gas.
  • v. To cure (fish) by soaking in brine and half-drying in smoke.
  • verb-intransitive. To become swollen or inflated: "Government had bloated out of control” ( Lance Morrow).
  • n. A swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of cattle and domestic animals that is caused by excessive gas formation following fermentation of ingested watery legumes or green forage.
  • n. An excess or surfeit, as of employees, expenses, or procedures: corporate bloat.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. to cause to become distended
  • v. to fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell
  • v. to fill with vanity or conceit
  • v. to preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking, (as in bloated herring).
  • n. distention of the abdomen from death
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular tissue, producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied with softness.
  • v. To inflate; to puff up; to make vain.
  • verb-intransitive. To grow turgid as by effusion of liquid in the cellular tissue; to puff out; to swell.
  • adj. Bloated.
  • n. A term of contempt for a worthless, dissipated fellow.
  • v. To dry (herrings) in smoke. See blote.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Cured by smoking: as, a bloat herring.
  • See bloater.
  • To cure by smoking, as herrings. Formerly spelled blote.
  • Puffed; swollen; turgid: as, “the bloat king,”
  • To make turgid or swollen, as with air, water, etc.; cause to swell, as with a dropsical humor; inflate; puff up; hence, make vain, conceited, etc.
  • To become swollen; be puffed out or dilated; dilate.
  • n. The bloater whitefish, Argyrosomus prognathus.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. become bloated or swollen or puff up
  • v. make bloated or swollen
  • n. swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of domestic animals caused by excessive gas
  • Antonym
    contract    deflate    shrink   
    Verb Form
    bloated    bloating    bloats   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    swell    swell up    tumefy    intumesce    tumesce    lump    swelling    puffiness   
    Variant
    blote   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    inflate    swell    bloated    puff    puff up    distend    inflated    swollen    drunkard   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Capote    Choate    Vote    afloat    boat    capote    choate    coat    connote    cote   
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