balloon
verb/bəˈluːn/
/bəˈluːn/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they balloon | /bəˈluːn/ /bəˈluːn/ |
| he / she / it balloons | /bəˈluːnz/ /bəˈluːnz/ |
| past simple ballooned | /bəˈluːnd/ /bəˈluːnd/ |
| past participle ballooned | /bəˈluːnd/ /bəˈluːnd/ |
| -ing form ballooning | /bəˈluːnɪŋ/ /bəˈluːnɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] balloon (out/up) to form a round shape
- Her skirt ballooned out in the wind.
- [intransitive] to increase rapidly
- Unemployment ballooned to fourteen per cent.
- [intransitive] (usually go ballooning)to travel in a hot-air balloon as a sport or for entertainment
Word Originlate 16th cent. (originally denoting a game played with a large inflated leather ball): from French ballon or Italian ballone ‘large ball’.
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