bloat: Meaning and Definition of

bloat

Pronunciation: (blōt), [key]
— v.t.
  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.
—v.i.
  1. to become swollen; be puffed out or dilated: The carcass started to bloat.
—n.
  1. Also called(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, esp. legumes.
  2. a person or thing that is bloated.
  3. bloater (defs. 1, 2).
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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