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Definitions for Bloat

[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.
[4] to become swollen; be puffed out or dilated: The carcass started to bloat.
[5] Also called hoven. Veterinary Pathology . (in cattle, sheep, and horses) a distention of the rumen or paunch or of the large colon by gases of fermentation, caused by eating ravenously of green forage, especially legumes.
[6] a person or thing that is bloated.
[7] bloater(defs 1, 2) .
[8] to swell or cause to swell, as with a liquid, air, or wind
[9] to become or cause to be puffed up, as with conceit
[10] (tr) to cure (fish, esp herring) by half-drying in smoke
[11] vet science an abnormal distention of the abdomen in cattle, sheep, etc, caused by accumulation of gas in the stomach

Words related to Bloat

inflate, swell, distend, dilate, balloon, bilge, enlarge, belly, billow, expand

Words nearby Bloat

blixen, blizzard, blk., bll, blm, bloat, bloated, bloater, blob, bloc, bloc québécois

Origin of Bloat

1250–1300; earlier bloat (adj.) soft, puffy, Middle English blout < Old Norse blautr wet, soft

Other words from Bloat

bloat′ ed (blō′ tĭd ) adj.

Word origin for Bloat

C17: probably related to Old Norse blautr soaked, Old English blāt pale

Synonyms for Bloat

inflate, swell, balloon, belly, bilge, billow, dilate, distend, enlarge, expand, puff up