Bloat \Bloat\ (bl[=o]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bloated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Bloating.] [Cf. Icel. blotna to become soft, blautr
soft, wet, Sw. bl["o]t soft, bl["o]ta to soak; akin to G.
bloss bare, and AS. ble['a]t wretched; or perh. fr. root of
Eng. 5th blow. Cf. Blote.]
1. To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling
of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular
tissue, producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied
with softness.
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2. To inflate; to puff up; to make vain. --Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Bloated \Bloat"ed\ (bl[=o]t"[e^]d), p. a.
Distended beyond the natural or usual size, as by the
presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a
bloated face. Also, puffed up with pride; pompous.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
bloated
adj : abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry
children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly
distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids";
"swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid
flesh" [syn: distended, puffed, puffy, swollen,
tumescent, tumid, turgid]
WordNet (r) 2.0
206 Moby Thesaurus words for "bloated":
accelerated, adipose, aggrandized, amplified, arrogant, augmented,
bagging, baggy, ballooning, bandy, bandy-legged, beefed-up, beefy,
bellying, big-bellied, billowing, billowy, blemished,
bloated with pride, blown up, blowzy, bombastic, boosted, bosomy,
bowlegged, brawny, broadened, bulbose, bulbous, bulging, bumped,
bumpy, bunched, bunchy, burly, bursting, buxom, choked, chubby,
chunky, club-footed, congested, corpulent, crammed, crowded,
deepened, defaced, deformed, dilated, disfigured, distended,
drenched, dropsical, dumpy, dwarfed, edematous, elated, elevated,
enchymatous, enhanced, enlarged, expanded, extended, fat, fattish,
filled to overflowing, flatfooted, flatulent, fleshy, flushed,
flushed with pride, formal, full, fully, gassy, glutted, gorged,
grandiloquent, gross, grotesque, heavyset, hefty, heightened,
hiked, hillocky, hippy, hummocky, hyperemic, ill-made,
ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, important, imposing, in spate,
incrassate, increased, inflated, intensified, jam-packed, jammed,
jazzed up, knock-kneed, lusty, magisterial, magnified, malformed,
marred, meaty, misbegotten, misproportioned, misshapen, monstrous,
moutonnee, multiplied, mutilated, obese, out of shape, overblown,
overburdened, overcharged, overfed, overflowing, overfraught,
overfreighted, overfull, overgrown, overladen, overloaded,
overstocked, overstuffed, oversupplied, overweight, overweighted,
packed, paunchy, pigeon-toed, plethoric, plump, pneumatic, podgy,
pompous, pontifical, portly, potbellied, pouching, proliferated,
pudgy, puffed up, puffy, pug-nosed, pursy, rachitic, raised,
ready to burst, reinforced, rickety, roly-poly, rotund, rounded,
running over, satiated, saturated, self-important, simous,
snub-nosed, soaked, solemn, spread, square, squat, squatty,
stalwart, stiffened, stilted, stocky, stout, strapping,
strengthened, stuffed, stuffed up, stuffy, stumpy, supercharged,
supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swaybacked, swelled,
swelling, swollen, talipedic, thick-bodied, thickset, tightened,
top-heavy, truncated, tubby, tumid, turgid, ventose, verrucated,
verrucose, warty, well-fed, widened, windy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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