bloat
11bloat — ► VERB ▪ cause to swell with fluid or gas. DERIVATIVES bloated adjective. ORIGIN perhaps from an Old Norse word meaning soft, flabby …
12bloat — bloat1 [blōt] adj. [ME blout, soft < ON blautr; ult. < IE base * bhel , to swell: see BALL1] swollen or distended; puffed up vt., vi. 1. to swell, as with water or air 2. to puff up, as with pride n. ☆ 1. a person or thing th …
13bloat|ed — «BLOH tihd», adjective. 1. swollen and puffy: »the bloated face of a rubber doll. 2. Figurative. pampered; puffed up. 3. Figurative. inflated; too great: »…put an end to these bloated armaments (Benjamin Disraeli) …
14bloat|er — «BLOH tuhr», noun. 1. a herring preserved by slightly salting and partially smoking, softer and less dry than a kipper. 2. a small cisco of the Great Lakes …
15bloat — {{11}}bloat (n.) 1860 as a disease of livestock, from BLOAT (Cf. bloat) (v.). Meaning bloatedness is from 1905. {{12}}bloat (v.) 1670s, to cause to swell (earlier, in reference to cured fish, to cause to be soft, 1610s), from now obsolete bloat… …
16bloat — /bloht/, 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.… …
17bloat — [13] Bloat has a confused and uncertain history. It seems first to have appeared on the scene in the 13th century as an adjective, blout, meaning ‘soft, flabby’, a probable borrowing from Old Norse blautr ‘soft from being cooked 65 bluestocking… …
18bloat — [13] Bloat has a confused and uncertain history. It seems first to have appeared on the scene in the 13th century as an adjective, blout, meaning ‘soft, flabby’, a probable borrowing from Old Norse blautr ‘soft from being cooked with liquid’.… …
19bloat — bloat1 verb cause to swell with fluid or gas. noun a disease of livestock characterized by an accumulation of gas in the stomach. Origin C17: from obs. bloat swollen, soft , perh. from ON blautr soft, flabby . bloat2 verb cure (a herring) by… …
20bloat — [[t]bloʊt[/t]] v. t. 1) to expand or distend, as with air or water; puff up 2) to become swollen 3) vet pat a gassy distension of the abdomen or other part of the digestive system 4) vet a sheep, cow, or the like affected by bloat 5) bloater 1) • …
