bloated
Americanadjective
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swollen; puffed up; overlarge.
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excessively vain; conceited.
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excessively fat; obese.
adjective
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swollen, as with a liquid, air, or wind
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puffed up, as with conceit
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Origin of bloated
Example Sentences
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A year into trying for Baby No. 2, I sat on the couch, bloated, at the end of my follicular phase.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
On a recent five-day trip to Terceira, Portugal, in March, she said she felt less bloated and like her clothes fit better, even though she wasn’t restricting her eating at all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Elena Spaven, 25, can relate to the TikTok videos and says she feels "extremely bloated" during the second half of her cycle.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
"In this model, blobs of matter are chaotically being ejected from the surface of the bloated stars in an asymmetric fashion," Fuller says.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
The cheers of the other covens faded, and silence grew around them until it was a bloated monster waiting to pop.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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