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Bloat   /bloʊt/   Listen
Bloat

verb
(past & past part. bloated; pres. part. bloating)
1.
Become bloated or swollen or puff up.
2.
Make bloated or swollen.





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"Bloat" Quotes from Famous Books



... generation of monoglots," MacHenery sighed. "It figures, though. There's no profit in having today's youth read the clinical record of another civilization that died of self-indulgence, that went roistering to its doom in a carnival of bloat." ...
— The Great Potlatch Riots • Allen Kim Lang
... picture. 3. Pan-o-ra'ma, a complete or entire view in every direction. 5. Rev'er-ie, an irregular train of thoughts occurring in meditation. Bes'tial (pro. bes'chal), brutish. Lit'er-al-ly, according to the first and natural meaning of words. 6. Pros'trate, lying at length. Grov'el-er, a base wretch. Bloat'ed, puffed out. 7. Im-brut'ed, reduced to brutality. Har'mo-ny, the fitness of parts to each other in any combination of things. Re'al-iz-ing, making one's own ...
— McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey


Words linked to "Bloat" :   lump, puffiness, swell up, distend, intumesce, swell, tumefy, tumesce, swelling


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