Definition of inflate

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Inflate (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..

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Inflater :: Inflater (n.) One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange..
High-swelling :: High-swelling (a.) Inflated; boastful.
Blown :: Blown (p. p. & a.) Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas..
Bombast :: Bombast (n.) Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
Vain :: Vain (superl.) Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason; conceited; puffed up; inflated..
Inflated :: Inflated (imp. & p. p.) of Inflat.
Inflate :: Inflate (v. t.) Fig.: To swell; to puff up; to elate; as, to inflate one with pride or vanity..
Turgent :: Turgent (a.) Inflated; bombastic; turgid; pompous.
Bombast :: Bombast (a.) High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.
High-blown :: High-blown (a.) Inflated, as with conceit..
Bladder :: Bladder (n.) A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air..
Puff :: Puff (n.) To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance..
Deflate :: Deflate (v. t.) To reduce from an inflated condition.
Inflate :: Inflate (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..
Distend :: Distend (v. i.) To become expanded or inflated; to swell.
Bloat :: Bloat (v. t.) To inflate; to puff up; to make vain.
Bombastical :: Bombastical (a.) Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated.
Float :: Float (v. i.) Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver.
Bubble :: Bubble (n.) A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river..
Puffer :: Puffer (n.) Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the species of Tetrodon and Diodon; -- called also blower, puff-fish, swellfish, and globefish..
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