bloat

[ bloht ]

/ bloʊt /

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verb (used with object)

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.

verb (used without object)

to become swollen; be puffed out or dilated: The carcass started to bloat.

noun

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.

a person or thing that is bloated.

bloater(defs 1, 2).

Nearby words

blixen, blizzard, blk., bll, blm, bloat, bloated, bloater, blob, bloc, bloc québécois

Origin of bloat

1250–1300; earlier bloat (adj.) soft, puffy, Middle English blout < Old Norse blautr wet, soft

SYNONYMS FOR bloat

1 swell, inflate, enlarge, balloon.

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Examples from the Web for bloat

Part of the decomposition process causes bodies to bloat and blood to sometimes seep from the mouth.
Bulgaria’s Vampire Graveyards|Nina Strochlic|October 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the new, leaner strategy, any bloat has to go, even if it means reversing on a major earlier decision.
Bill Gates’ Internet Doomsday Prophesy Comes True|Kyle Chayka|July 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
On these bad days, I step out of bed and look in the mirror at the bloat in my face.
Inspired by Ashley Judd, My Own ‘Puffy Face’ Saga|Kelly Bergin|April 13, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Come on and watch the free show while the bloat makes out your check and mine.
The Lumberjack Sky Pilot|Thomas D. Whittles

All malt liquors fatten, or at least bloat; and I hope you do not deal much in them.
The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son|The Earl of Chesterfield
Had good digestion through the growing period, but subsequently became subject to "bloat of wind" in abdomen.
New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers|Various
The fly had pierced a blood vessel and would now bloat itself with blood.
The Lost Wagon|James Arthur Kjelgaard
The consekence was, he began to swell an bloat like a mad porkepine.
Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia|Seba Smith

British Dictionary definitions for bloat

bloat

/ (bləʊt) /

verb

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

noun

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

Word Origin for bloat

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

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Medicine definitions for bloat

bloat

[ blōt ]

n.

Abdominal distention due to swallowed air or intestinal gas production.

Related forms

bloat′ed (blō′tĭd) adj.