bloated

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bloat⋅ed

[bloh-tid]

–adjective

1.	swollen; puffed up; overlarge.

2.	excessively vain; conceited.

3.	excessively fat; obese.

Origin:
1655–65; bloat + -ed ²

Related forms:

bloat⋅ed⋅ness, noun

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bloat

[bloht]

–verb (used with object)

1.	to expand or distend, as with air, water, etc.; cause to swell: Overeating bloated their bellies.

2.	to puff up; make vain or conceited: The promotion has bloated his ego to an alarming degree.

3.	to cure (fishes) as bloaters.

–verb (used without object)

4.	to become swollen; be puffed out or dilated: The carcass started to bloat.

–noun

5.	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, esp. legumes.

6.	a person or thing that is bloated.

7.	bloater (defs. 1, 2).

Origin:
1250–1300; earlier bloat (adj.) soft, puffy, ME blout < ON blautr wet, soft

Synonyms:
1. swell, inflate, enlarge, balloon.

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bloat (blōt)

v. bloat·ed, bloat·ing, bloats

v. tr.

To cause to swell up or inflate, as with liquid or gas.
To cure (fish) by soaking in brine and half-drying in smoke.

v. intr.
To become swollen or inflated: "Government had bloated out of control" (Lance Morrow).
n.

A swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of cattle and domestic animals that is caused by excessive gas formation following fermentation of ingested watery legumes or green forage.
An excess or surfeit, as of employees, expenses, or procedures: corporate bloat.

[From Middle English blout, soft, puffed, from Old Norse blautr, soft, soaked; see bhleu- in Indo-European roots.]

bloat·ed (blō'tĭd)

adj.

Much bigger than desired: a bloated bureaucracy; a bloated budget.
Medicine Swollen or distended beyond normal size by fluid or gaseous material.

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Word Origin & History

bloat

c.1300, originally an adj., "soft, flabby," but by 17c. meaning "puffed up, swollen." Perhaps from O.N. blautr "soaked, soft from being cooked in liquid," from P.Gmc. *blaut-, from PIE *bhleu- "to swell, well up, overthrow," extension of root *bhel- "to blow, swell" (see bole). Influenced by or combined with O.E. blawan "blow, puff." The verb sense of "to swell" is first attested 1677. Bloated "overgrown" is from 1664.

Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: ²bloat
Function: noun
: a flatulent digestive disturbance of domestic animals and especially cattle marked by abdominal bloating

Medical Dictionary

bloat (blōt)
n.
Abdominal distention due to swallowed air or intestinal gas production.

bloat'ed (blō'tĭd) adj.

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