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.

Concepten

zwellen

pekelen

roken

opblazen

uitdeinen

volpompen

smoken

Synoniemen

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

Vertalingen

hinchar

aufblasen

inchar

gonfler

şişirmek

πρήζω

inflar

φουσκώνω

meteorismo

inchaço

نفاخ

bouffir

inflar

boursoufler

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/bləʊt/

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: blot

Verwant aan Deens: blød

Verwant aan Nederlands: bloot

Verwant aan 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”).