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).

OTHER WORDS FOR bloat

1 swell, inflate, enlarge, balloon.

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Origin of bloat

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

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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.
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Now those are destroyed, too, and the animals are strewn about, bloating and stinking, as if in a tableau of “Guernica.”
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Because they are poorly absorbed, these FODMAPs feed our gut bacteria, which then cause bloating and cramps.
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The regime tries to buy popularity by bloating the state sector.
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The poison was spreading swiftly through his veins, and we could almost see his body swell, so rapidly was it bloating him.
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There is more or less of hazard to cows when grazing on alfalfa—liability to bloating, which may result fatally.
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He backed against the wall, bloating with fear in spite of himself.
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His features changed slowly as he talked because of acceleration-driven blood engorging his lips and bloating his cheeks.
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The bloating of my bowels and limbs ceased, and I felt much better.
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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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