Inflate
[ɪn'fleɪt] or [ɪn'flet]
Definition
(verb.) fill with gas or air; 'inflate a balloons'.
(verb.) exaggerate or make bigger; 'The charges were inflated'.
(verb.) increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value; 'inflate the currency'.
(verb.) cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit; 'The war inflated the economy'.
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Definition
(p. a.) Blown in; inflated.
(v. t.) To swell or distend with air or gas; to dilate; to expand; to enlarge; as, to inflate a bladder; to inflate the lungs.
(v. t.) Fig.: To swell; to puff up; to elate; as, to inflate one with pride or vanity.
(v. t.) To cause to become unduly expanded or increased; as, to inflate the currency.
(v. i.) To expand; to fill; to distend.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Swell (by blowing), distend, expand, bloat, blow up.[2]. Puff up, make conceited.[3]. Enlarge, increase.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Distend, expand
ANT:Exhaust, empty, squeeze, flatten, compress
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Definition
v.t. to swell with air: to puff up elate.—adj. Inflat′ed swollen or blown out: turgid.—adv. Inflat′ingly.—ns. Inflā′tion state of being puffed up; Inflā′tus a breathing into: inspiration.
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Examples
- Down through these, from the third floor, come the wheels, with the tires mounted and inflated to the proper pressure. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- When bicycle tires are being inflated, the pump becomes hot because of the compression of the air. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Vastly over-advertised, we have mistaken an inflated fragment for the real political life of the country. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Meanwhile, the dough itself is influenced by the heat and is stiffened to such an extent that it retains its inflated shape and spongy nature. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Taking advantage of the inflated market, many of our shrewdest operators are selling short. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They were naturally inflated by their sweeping unqualified successes in war, and by their rapid progress from comparative poverty to wealth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Inflated skins may have preceded the coracle, and are still used on the Euphrates and upper Ganges. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- When he wishes to ascend he simply inflates his dress from the reservoir. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And he inflates his broad chest to its utmost extent as if to assure himself that he is not smothered yet. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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