inflate
verb (used with object)
to distend; swell or puff out; dilate.
inflater
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a word derived from
inflate.
Example Sentences
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The prices are all in today’s money, using the official consumer-price index as the inflater.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2025
It is leaving behind the air bag inflater business that caused all the wreckage.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2017
At least one current Fiat Chrysler model contains a front passenger-side air bag that uses an inflater lacking a drying agent, the report found.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2016
“It is unknown why the same inflater, with the same propellant formulation, performs better in some vehicles than in other vehicles.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2016
And—bless me, you've no inflater, or glasses—not even a wind-gauge!
From Mr. Punch's Golf Stories by Various
