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bloated

[ bloh-tid ]

adjective

  1. swollen; puffed up; overlarge.
  2. excessively vain; conceited.
  3. excessively fat; obese.


bloated

/ ˈbləʊtɪd /

adjective

  1. swollen, as with a liquid, air, or wind
  2. puffed up, as with conceit
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

  • bloated·ness noun
  • un·bloated adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bloated1

First recorded in 1655–65; bloat + -ed 2
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Example Sentences

There were stomachs, taut and flat, but also undulating bellies, soft and bloated from the breakfast buffet.

“It was our own version of what happens when a band becomes over-bloated with its own confidence,” Fogarino, 45, continues.

They were being carried out and the stench of their rotting flesh and bloated guts made it hard to examine them closely.

By the time that you see them, they're bloated into surrealist Arcimboldo paintings, into soft constructions of rotten fruit.

Other, bloated and decomposing corpses are piled on top of them.

The bloated enemy, as regards Scotland, was dead before Dr. Campbell had ever penned a line.

He has become the demigod of the bloated manufacturing, mining, and landlord interests throughout the country.

Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated.

According to degree of exposure, their faces were bloated and black or yellow and shrunken.

His bloated face betrayed him an inveterate drunkard; his staring little eyes blinked humbly.

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