📖 Definitions of "Bloat"
- 1
Distention of the abdomen from death.
- 2
Pathological overdistention of rumen with gas in a ruminant.
- 3
Wasteful use of space or other resources.
"Adding an e-mail feature to this simple text editor would be pointless bloat."
- 4
A worthless, dissipated fellow.
- 1
To cause to become distended.
- 2
(veterinary medicine) to get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
- 3
To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.
- 4
To become distended; to swell up.
- 1
Bloated.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Bloat"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| distended | Extended or expanded, as from internal pressure; swollen. |
| tumescent | Swollen or distended with fluid, as of erectile tissue. |
| tumid | Swollen, enlarged, bulging. |
| swollen | Protuberant or abnormally distended (as by injury or disease). |
| puffed | Inflated or swollen. |
| puffy | Swollen or inflated in shape, as if filled with air; pillow-like. |
| unhealthy | characterized by, or conducive to poor health |
| frothynoun | Foamy or churned to the point of becoming infused with bubbles. |
| puffnoun | (countable) A small quantity of gas or smoke in the air. |
| bladdernoun | (anatomy) Specifically, the urinary bladder. |
| engorgeverb | (transitive) To devour something greedily, gorge, glut. |
| swellnoun | The act of swelling; increase in size. |
| inflateverb | (transitive) To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally |
| hyperinflateverb | (economics, transitive) To subject to hyperinflation. |
| poochnoun | (slang) A dog. |
| overswellverb | (ambitransitive) To swell or rise above (something, especially the rim of a container, the sides of something hollow, etc.). |
| extuberateverb | (obsolete) To swell out. |
| outbulgeverb | To bulge outward. |
| overstretchnoun | The act of stretching something too far or beyond available resources. |
| overexpandverb | To expand to an excessive or unwise degree |
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