inflate
verb (used with object)
to distend; swell or puff out; dilate.
have been inflating
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present perfect progressiveof inflate.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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News & World Report, Money magazine, as well as Barron's, dozens of schools have been inflating the sat scores of the freshman class and manipulating graduation rates.
From Time Magazine Archive
Electricity bills have been inflating not only because of higher oil prices but also because the cost of about everything that utilities use, from transmission wire to turbines, has increased alarmingly.
From Time Magazine Archive
