bloat
to expand or distend, as with air, water, etc.; cause to swell: Overeating bloated their bellies.
to puff up; make vain or conceited: The promotion has bloated his ego to an alarming degree.
to cure (fishes) as bloaters.
to become swollen; be puffed out or dilated: The carcass started to bloat.
Origin of bloat
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How to use bloat in a sentence
“It has helped with the bloating,” Williford says, which had gotten so bad she says she sometimes looked several months pregnant.
Now those are destroyed, too, and the animals are strewn about, bloating and stinking, as if in a tableau of “Guernica.”
Because they are poorly absorbed, these FODMAPs feed our gut bacteria, which then cause bloating and cramps.
The regime tries to buy popularity by bloating the state sector.
The poison was spreading swiftly through his veins, and we could almost see his body swell, so rapidly was it bloating him.
The Gold Hunter's Adventures | William H. Thomes
There is more or less of hazard to cows when grazing on alfalfa—liability to bloating, which may result fatally.
Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry | Pratt Food Co.He backed against the wall, bloating with fear in spite of himself.
The Giants From Outer Space | Geoff St. ReynardHis features changed slowly as he talked because of acceleration-driven blood engorging his lips and bloating his cheeks.
Space Tug | Murray LeinsterThe bloating of my bowels and limbs ceased, and I felt much better.
Two Years and Four Months in a Lunatic Asylum | Hiram Chase
British Dictionary definitions for bloat
/ (bləʊt) /
to swell or cause to swell, as with a liquid, air, or wind
to become or cause to be puffed up, as with conceit
(tr) to cure (fish, esp herring) by half-drying in smoke
vet science an abnormal distention of the abdomen in cattle, sheep, etc, caused by accumulation of gas in the stomach
Origin of bloat
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