bloat
verb/bləʊt/
/bləʊt/
[transitive, intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they bloat | /bləʊt/ /bləʊt/ |
| he / she / it bloats | /bləʊts/ /bləʊts/ |
| past simple bloated | /ˈbləʊtɪd/ /ˈbləʊtɪd/ |
| past participle bloated | /ˈbləʊtɪd/ /ˈbləʊtɪd/ |
| -ing form bloating | /ˈbləʊtɪŋ/ /ˈbləʊtɪŋ/ |
- bloat something to swell (= become bigger or rounder) or make something swell, especially in an unpleasant way
- Her features had been bloated by years of drinking.
Word Originlate 17th cent. (in the sense ‘cause to swell’): from obsolete bloat ‘swollen, soft’, perhaps from Old Norse blautr ‘soft, flabby’.Want to learn more?
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