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Definition of balloon verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

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/
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  1. [intransitive] balloon (out/up) to form a round shape
    • Her skirt ballooned out in the wind.
  2. [intransitive] to increase rapidly
    • Unemployment ballooned to fourteen per cent.
  3. [intransitive]
    (usually go ballooning)
    to travel in a hot-air balloon as a sport or for entertainment
  4. 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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