bloat
[verb]
Synonyms: puff up, balloon, blow up, dilate, distend, enlarge, expand, inflate, swell

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

bloat (blōt)
v. bloat·ed, bloat·ing, bloats
v. tr.
► To cause to swell up or inflate, as with liquid or gas.
► To cure (fish) by soaking in brine and half-drying in smoke.
v. intr.
To become swollen or inflated: “Government had bloated out of control” (Lance Morrow).
n.
► A swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of cattle and domestic animals that is caused by excessive gas formation following fermentation of ingested watery legumes or green forage.
► An excess or surfeit, as of employees, expenses, or procedures:
corporate bloat.

[TahlilGaran] American Dictionary ▲

bloat
[From Middle English blout, soft, puffed, from Old Norse blautr, soft, soaked. See bhleu- in Indo-European Roots.]

[TahlilGaran] American Dictionary ▲