inflated

Modifies a noun

• ego: They had an inflated ego, they had a greater sense of their own importance than they should have had.
• tire: Two flats, probably due to under inflated tire allowing inner tube to get nipped.
• balloon: The gas inside an inflated balloon exerts a greater pressure outward than the inward pressure of the atmosphere.
• bladder: Shortly after this picture was taken, I was hit over the head with an inflated bladder on a stick.
• price: Farmers have sold these houses for inflated prices to the middle classes who have moved into the rural areas.
• expectation: But from where did they download their inflated expectations?

Modifying Another Word

• grossly: Many firms used grossly inflated forecasts to sell their policies.
• vastly: There is no way he can possibly justify such a vastly inflated fee.
• artificially: Hence many tricks are used to cheat them and achieve artificially inflated rankings.
• falsely: A company is being run for a fraudulent purpose e.g. regularly submitting falsely inflated bills to customers for car repairs.
• hugely: Even at the hugely inflated fee Rooney is an outstanding signing for the club.
• correctly: They are so quick and easy to use, simply screw onto a correctly inflated tire in place of the dust caps.

Used with adjective complement

• become: This is similar to a tire getting increasingly difficult to pump air into as it becomes fully inflated.
• stay: Remember to pull the seal up higher and add another lump of lead so the suit stays more inflated.
• keep: The balloons had to be kept fully inflated - hence the enormous size of the hanger.