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bloat

[ bloht ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to expand or distend, as with air, water, etc.; cause to swell:

    Overeating bloated their bellies.

    Synonyms: balloon, enlarge, inflate, swell

  2. to puff up; make vain or conceited:

    The promotion has bloated his ego to an alarming degree.

  3. to cure (fishes) as bloaters.


verb (used without object)

  1. to become swollen; be puffed out or dilated:

    The carcass started to bloat.

noun

  1. Also called hoven. Veterinary Pathology. (in cattle, sheep, and horses) a distention of the rumen or paunch or of the large colon by gases of fermentation, caused by eating ravenously of green forage, especially legumes.
  2. a person or thing that is bloated.

bloat

/ bləʊt /

verb

  1. to swell or cause to swell, as with a liquid, air, or wind
  2. to become or cause to be puffed up, as with conceit
  3. tr to cure (fish, esp herring) by half-drying in smoke


noun

  1. vet science an abnormal distention of the abdomen in cattle, sheep, etc, caused by accumulation of gas in the stomach

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Word History and Origins

Origin of bloat1

First recorded in 1250–1300; earlier bloat (adjective) “soft, puffy,” Middle English blout, from Old Norse blautr “wet, soft”

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Word History and Origins

Origin of bloat1

C17: probably related to Old Norse blautr soaked, Old English blāt pale

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Example Sentences

However, the consequences of being based on old code that anyone can plug into means the platform suffers from security vulnerabilities and code bloat.

Bolting-on functionality inevitably results in code bloat, which means slow-loading pages that could hinder high search engine rankings — the opposite of what marketers are looking to accomplish by focusing on Core Web Vitals.

If you look at cultures that have been mostly plant-based, they’ve done this for centuries to enable the body to absorb the nutrients more easily and prevent things like indigestion, heavy bloats, and gas.

From Eater

Bolting-on functionality inevitably results in code bloat, and this vast ecosystem of plug-ins brings with it a not-insubstantial number of security vulnerabilities.

What is clear is that the Democrats also believe there is a massive amount of bloat in our medical system, with too much money paid out to too many arms of the healthcare hydra.

Part of the decomposition process causes bodies to bloat and blood to sometimes seep from the mouth.

In the new, leaner strategy, any bloat has to go, even if it means reversing on a major earlier decision.

It's classic big-government logic: create a redundant position and the needless bloat that goes with it.

Another reasons EMRs lie, is that they are subject to “template bloat.”

He has no use for the mind-numbing bloat of Ringling Brothers nor does he like the light-show and acrobatics of Cirque du Soleil.

Some one of the above purgatives should be given after the bloat has subsided, and careful feeding for some days must be observed.

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His physical weakness, they soon discovered, was exactly what was to be expected of a whisky bloat.

I was well until I weaned my baby and then I began to bloat and had bearing down pains.

Excessive fermentations of this kind are responsible for the distressing phenomenon known as "bloat."

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