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[in-fleyt]

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verb (used with object)

to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.

to cause to expand or distend with air or gas: to inflate a balloon.

to puff up with pride, satisfaction, etc.

to elate.

Economics. to expand (money, prices, an economy, etc.) unduly in amount, value, or size; affect with inflation.

verb (used without object)

to become inflated.

to increase, especially suddenly and substantially: The $10 subscription has inflated to $25.

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Origin:
1470–80; < Latin inflātus past participle of inflāre to blow on or into, puff out, equivalent to in- in-² + flā- blow² + -tus past participle suffix

Related forms

in·flat·er, in·fla·tor, noun

o·ver·in·flate, verb (used with object), -flat·ed, -flat·ing.

re·in·flate, verb, -flat·ed, -flat·ing.

Synonyms
1. See expand.

Antonyms
1. deflate.

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Example Sentences

Grab the money, pitch two more years, inflate the bank account and then disappear.

Press people are paid the big bucks to inflate the importance of their subject.

That's right, one of the principle ways the country addressed its debtload was to inflate it away.

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Grab the money, pitch two more years, inflate the bank account and then disappear.

Press people are paid the big bucks to inflate the importance of their subject.

That's right, one of the principle ways the country addressed its debtload was to inflate it away.

The officials said they suspected the team used erroneous data to inflate their claims.

Simply asking the travelers for the price is hopeless, he figures, for they will inflate it.

Inflate a balloon by fitting it over a bottle containing a yeast-sugar-water mixture.

The nanowires inflate four times their normal size as they soak up lithium.

Weinstein directed officers and employees to engage in a scheme to artificially inflate accounts receivable and.

The hockey-stick graph was done by adding computer code to inflate the numbers during the fossil-fuel era.

Emboldened, aid workers inflate numbers of the starving.

Finally large gas-filled bags will inflate to protect it as it bounces to a halt on the landing site.

It suits them enormously to inflate their claims about piracy.

In a water evacuation, don't inflate your life vest until you're out the door, in the water and tired of swimming.

She chose not to inflate her modest bosom, and her feet were on the large side.

No need to edit-chop the resume or inflate it either.

But this loyalty also tends to inflate the market rate.

Supply and demand in the workforce should set wages rather than inflate wages for the uneducated.

It was this programmer chute that failed to inflate properly causing the capsule to fall much faster then planned.

Slowdowns or disruptions by the local can inflate building costs and reduce profits for developers and contractors.

We tend to inflate news reporting of one incident into an indicator that all special collections librarians are the same.

And if that fails, they will help inflate those liabilities away.

The factors that inflate health costs must be addressed widely and directly.

Once packed, you hook the foot-pump up to the case and inflate it.

Arraignment delays keep arresting officers from returning to patrol, and long stays in lockups inflate public budgets.

The pressure to inflate grades and bend over backwards to placate students largely comes from the administration.

Another undesirable model is to inflate the debt away, as has often happened in the past.

The bags inflate into balloons in the water and the turtles think they're food and bite into them.

Defectors have been known to inflate the threat from their home regimes.

It also amazes me the notion that only for profit schools would potentially inflate credit hours in order to garner more funds.

They know that desperate bands may chatter about themselves or hire marketing firms to inflate their online metrics.

They also found virtually no evidence of attempts to inflate disability claims.

To make it move, you inflate the balloon by blowing into the tube at the back of the racer.

Anonymous teaching evaluations only serve to inflate grades and demoralize the faculty.

Higher up the ladder, government procurement officers inflate contracts for anything from paper clips to luxury cars.

It uses a highly-modified hydraulic system to inflate the ping-pong balls at the ends of its branches.

Inflate tires to the maximum pressure listed on the sidewall.

She didn't need to lie or inflate her qualifications to get that first job.

Nor can euro members inflate the cost of the debt away, since they do not control monetary policy.

Isn't it more than a little likely that someone might inflate their scores and that's your hopeful single counterexample.

The bank offers a no-annual-fee credit card that doesn't add charges to foreign purchases, and they don't inflate exchange rates.

But the alternative, of allowing a bubble to inflate which is bound to burst eventually, would be even more painful.

The purpose of this deposit is to falsely inflate the victim's account balance and/or identify the specific account number.

If that happens, profit margins will inflate quickly.

Unlike you, however, birds lack a diaphragm and cannot inflate or deflate their lungs.

And attempts to control pay in one area tend to inflate it in another.

Some retailers inflate the amount they deduct and then press the supplier to meet them in the middle.

Nigerian censuses have in the past been marred by fraud and violence as each group sought to inflate its numbers.

Bubbles inflate precisely because people fail to recognise that they are living with dangerous imbalances.

The feds have no choice but to inflate or default on its debt.

If you print trillions of excess dollars, they inflate markets.

Loose monetary policy helped to inflate a global credit bubble.

Indeed, many firms engaged in misleading and even fraudulent accounting practices to inflate short-term profits.

It's breathless and biased, to be sure, with a tendency to inflate numbers and play down.

But if it does not tighten policy soon, a full-blown bubble is likely to inflate.

Even the numbers of dead are hard to pin down as both sides are said to inflate them to gain sympathy.

Then you can inflate away the value of the savings and pay the the debts with worthless paper.

Rather, one which can deflate a bit but will likely continue to inflate even more for quite a while yet.

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World English Dictionary

inflate (ɪnˈfleɪt)

—vb
1.	to expand or cause to expand by filling with gas or air: she needed to inflate the tyres
2.	(tr) to cause to increase excessively; puff up; swell: to inflate one's opinion of oneself
3.	(tr) to cause inflation of (prices, money, etc)
4.	(tr) to raise in spirits; elate
5.	(intr) to undergo economic inflation

[C16: from Latin inflāre to blow into, from flāre to blow]

in'flatedly

—*adv*

in'flatedness

—n

in'flater

—n

in'flator

—n

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Word Origin & History

inflate

1530s, from L. inflatus, pp. of inflare (see inflation).

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