Bloated
['bləʊtɪd] or ['blotɪd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Bloat
(p. a.) Distended beyond the natural or usual size, as by the presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a bloated face. Also, puffed up with pride; pompous.
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Examples
- I recognised well that purple face,--those bloated features. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- To be growing suddenly and violently rich, as this man is, naturally makes him a bloated aristocrat. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A man with a bloated face opened the strong wicket, to whom Defarge presented The Emigrant Evremonde. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It is so easy to be bloated aristocrats where it costs nothing of consequence! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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