inflate
verb (used with object)
to distend; swell or puff out; dilate.
Example Sentences
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Whenever Masters tried to draw a lyrical breath, he was apt to exhale some inflatedly gassy lines.
From Time Magazine Archive
"All very well," answered Blasius, more inflatedly, "but your own changes of ground must show you the necessity for a proper legal investigation."
From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul
