bloat
31bloat — Synonyms and related words: accrue, accumulate, add to, advance, aggrandize, amplify, appreciate, augment, balloon, bloatedness, bloating, blotter, blow up, blowing up, boom, boozehound, boozer, breaking point, breed, broaden, build, build up,… …
32bloat — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. distend, swell, puff up. See convexity. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. balloon, swell, dilate, billow, inflate, expand, puff. ANT.: contract, deflate, shrivel …
33bloat — n British a fat or overweight person. A bloater is an edible fish, but the slang term is probably derived from bloated …
34bloat — bləʊt v. inflate, puff up, balloon, distend …
35bloat — I. v. a. Swell, inflate, distend, dilate, puff up, blow up, make turgid. II. v. n. Swell, dilate, be swollen, be inflated or distended, be puffed or blown up, become turgid …
36bloat — v swell, puff out or up, balloon, inflate, Obs. sufflate, pump up; expand, distend, stretch, dilate, spread out, fill up or out, round out; enlarge, get bigger, grow, gain, increase, pad …
37bloat·ed — …
38abomasal bloat — bloat in calves or lambs on milk replacement diets, seen especially when the milk replacer is warm or contains insoluble ingredients or if the animals have not been fed for a few hours and drink too much. The distended abomasum may compress… …
39bloat herring — bloater (1) …
40bloat, bloating — 1. Abdominal distention from swallowed air or intestinal gas from fermentation. 2. Distention of the rumen of cattle, caused by the accumulation of gases of fermentation, particularly likely to occur when the animals are pastured on rich legume… …
