bloat
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.
to become swollen; be puffed out or dilated: The carcass started to bloat.
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How to use bloat in a sentence
Part of the decomposition process causes bodies to bloat and blood to sometimes seep from the mouth.
In the new, leaner strategy, any bloat has to go, even if it means reversing on a major earlier decision.
It's classic big-government logic: create a redundant position and the needless bloat that goes with it.
Washington’s Silly Plan to Create a National Nurse | Michelle Cottle | February 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAnother reasons EMRs lie, is that they are subject to “template bloat.”
The Unintended Consequences of Electronic Medical Records, Continued | Megan McArdle | January 25, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHe has no use for the mind-numbing bloat of Ringling Brothers nor does he like the light-show and acrobatics of Cirque du Soleil.
Some one of the above purgatives should be given after the bloat has subsided, and careful feeding for some days must be observed.
Domestic Animals | Richard L. AllenShould you be still anxious to arrive at bloat, you cannot do better than——'
Berry And Co. | Dornford YatesHis physical weakness, they soon discovered, was exactly what was to be expected of a whisky bloat.
The Snow-Burner | Henry OyenI was well until I weaned my baby and then I began to bloat and had bearing down pains.
Treatise on the Diseases of Women | Lydia E. PinkhamExcessive fermentations of this kind are responsible for the distressing phenomenon known as "bloat."
The Chemistry of Plant Life | Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher
British Dictionary definitions for bloat
/ (bləʊt) /
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
vet science an abnormal distention of the abdomen in cattle, sheep, etc, caused by accumulation of gas in the stomach
Origin of bloat
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