bloat

Betekenis (Engels)

Verb

1. To cause to become distended.
2. (intransitive) To get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
3. To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.
4. (intransitive) To become distended; to swell up.
5. To fill with vanity or conceit.
6. (dated) To preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking.
7. To increase to an excessive amount.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Distention of the abdomen from death.
2. (countable, uncountable) Pathological overdistention of rumen with gas in a ruminant.
3. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) Wasteful use of space or other resources.
4. (countable, dated, derogatory, slang, uncountable) A worthless, dissipated fellow.
5. (collective, countable, uncountable) A group of hippopotamuses.

Adj

bloated.

Sinonieme

swell

distend

bulge

balloon

🎈

inflate

billow

protuberate

swell up

belly

belly out

puff

blow up

kipper

mushroom

🍄

pop

protrude

puff out

puff up

smoke

smolder

snowball

spread out

surge

swelling

tumefy

inflamation

pop out

grow thick

tumesce

increase in size

curve out

cure in smoke

corn

🌽

crescendo

cure

etc.

expand

fill out

give head

gripes

griping

increase

inflation

Vertalings

hinchar

aufblasen

inchar

gonfler

şişirmek

πρήζω

inflar

φουσκώνω

zwellen

meteorismo

نفاخ

bouffir

inflar

boursoufler

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/bləʊt/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: blot

Verwante met Deens: blød

Verwante met Nederlands: bloot

Verwante met Duits: bloß

In summary

Perhaps from Middle English blot, blout (“soft; flexible; pliable”), from Old Norse blautr (“soft”). Akin to Danish blød, Dutch bloot (“nude”) and German bloß (“nude”).