Bloat (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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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)
  1. to become swollen; be puffed out or dilated: The carcass started to bloat.
noun
  1. (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, especially legumes.
  2. a person or thing that is bloated.
  3. bloater (defs. 1, 2).
verb
  1. to swell or cause to swell, as with a liquid, air, or wind
  2. to become or cause to be puffed up, as with conceit
  3. to cure (fish, esp herring) by half-drying in smoke
noun
  1. an abnormal distention of the abdomen in cattle, sheep, etc, caused by accumulation of gas in the stomach
Bloat (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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