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| Main Entry: |
bloat
 [bloht] 
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | blow up like a balloon |
| Synonyms: | balloon, belly, bilge, billow, dilate, distend, enlarge, expand, inflate, puff up, swell |
| Antonyms: | deflate, shrink, shrivel, tighten |
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| Main Entry: | billow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | surge |
| Synonyms: | balloon, belly, bloat, bounce, bulge, ebb and flow, heave, pitch, puff up, ripple, rise and fall, rise up, rock, roll, swell, toss, undulate, wave |
| Main Entry: | blow up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | inflate |
| Synonyms: | billow, bloat, distend, enlarge, expand, fill, inflate, puff up, pump up, swell |
| Antonyms: | deflate, let out, shrink, shrivel |
Example Sentences
- Free yourself from bloated code with these lightweight web machines.
- Bloated reputations and salaries sent costs soaring, far beyond what could be recouped by sales and the actual size of the market.
- But for all the fun it kicks up, the movie feels bloated and chaotic.
| Main Entry: | bulge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | project outward |
| Synonyms: | bag, balloon, beetle, belly, bilge, billow, bloat, blob, bug out, dilate, distend, enlarge, expand, extrude, jut, overhang, poke, pop out, pouch, protrude, protuberate, puff out, sag, stand out, stick out, swell |
| Antonyms: | cave in, depress |
| Main Entry: | distend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bulge, swell |
| Synonyms: | amplify, augment, balloon, bloat, dilate, distort, enlarge, expand, increase, inflate, lengthen, puff, stretch, widen |
| Antonyms: | cave in, contract, deflate, fall, shrink |
| Main Entry: | distended |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | swollen |
| Synonyms: | bloated, bulging, enlarged, expanded, inflated, puffed out, puffy, stretched, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
| Main Entry: | expand |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | extend, augment |
| Synonyms: | aggrandize, amplify, beef up, bloat, blow up, bolster, broaden, bulk up, burgeon, detail, develop, diffuse, dilate, distend, elaborate, embellish, enlarge, explicate, fan out, fatten, fill out, grow, heighten, hike, increase, inflate, lengthen, magnify, mount, multiply, mushroom, open, open out, outspread, pad, piggyback, prolong, protract, puff up, pyramid, slap on, soup up, spread, spread out, stretch, stretch out, swell, tack on, thicken, unfold, unfurl, unravel, unroll, upsurge, wax, widen |
| Antonyms: | abbreviate, contract, lessen, lower, shorten, shrink |
| Main Entry: | fatten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grow or make bigger; nourish |
| Synonyms: | augment, bloat, broaden, build up, coarsen, cram, distend, expand, feed, fill, gain weight, increase, overfeed, plump, put flesh on, put on weight, round out, spread, stuff, swell, thicken, thrive, wax |
| Antonyms: | thin, undernourish |
| Main Entry: | inflate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | blow up, increase |
| Synonyms: | aerate, aggrandize, amplify, augment, balloon, beef up, bloat, boost, build up, cram, dilate, distend, enlarge, escalate, exaggerate, exalt, expand, flesh out, magnify, maximize, overestimate, pad, puff up, pump up, pyramid, raise, spread, stretch, surcharge, swell up, widen |
| Antonyms: | compress, contract, deflate, let air out, shrink |
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