bloat

The definition of bloat is a swollen person or thing.

(adjective)

An example of bloat is a belly after eating too much.

Bloat is defined as to swell with air, water or pride.

(verb)

An example of bloat is filling a tire with air; the air has caused the tire the bloat.
An example of bloat is filling an empty balloon with water; the water has caused the balloon to bloat.
An example of bloat is feeding a person's ego with compliments; his ego bloat with compliments.

See bloat in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

swollen or distended; puffed up

Origin: ME blout, soft < ON blautr; ult. < IE base *bhel-, to swell: see ball

transitive verb, intransitive verb

noun

Related Forms:

transitive verb

to cure or preserve (herring, etc.) by soaking in salt water, smoking, and half-drying

Origin: ME blote, soft with moisture < ON blautr, soaked: see bloat

See bloat in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb bloat·ed, bloat·ing, bloats

verb, transitive

verb, intransitive

To become swollen or inflated: “Government had bloated out of control” (Lance Morrow).

noun

A swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of cattle and domestic animals that is caused by excessive gas formation following fermentation of ingested watery legumes or green forage.
An excess or surfeit, as of employees, expenses, or procedures: corporate bloat.

Origin:

Origin: From Middle English blout, soft, puffed

Origin: , from Old Norse blautr, soft, soaked; see bhleu- in Indo-European roots

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