Definition of "bloat"

bloat

/bləʊt/

verb
third-person singular simple present bloats, present participle bloating, simple past and past participle bloated
1. To cause to become distended.
2. (intransitive, veterinary medicine) 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.
  Quotations
  if a Person of a firm Conſtitution begins to bloat, and from being warm grows cold, his Fibres grow weak, Anxiety and Palpitations of the Heart are a ſign of weak Fibres
  1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], 1st Irish edition, Dublin: […] S. Powell, for George Risk, […], George Ewing, […], and William Smith, […]
5. To fill with vanity or conceit.
  Quotations
  Encourage him, and bloat him up with Praise
  1675, John Dryden, Prologue to Circe by Dr. Davenant
6. (dated) To preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking.
7. To increase to an excessive amount.
  Quotations
  In the UK, the fraction of electricity generated by nuclear plants has slid steadily downwards, from 25% in the 1990s to 16% in 2020. Of the five nuclear stations still producing power, only one will run beyond 2028. Hinkley Point C, the first new nuclear plant in a generation, is being built in Somerset, but its cost has bloated to more than £25bn.
  December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian‎
noun
countable and uncountable, plural bloats
1. Distention of the abdomen from death.
2. (veterinary medicine) Pathological overdistention of rumen with gas in a ruminant.
3. (figurative) Wasteful use of space or other resources.
4. (derogatory, slang, dated) A worthless, dissipated fellow.
adjective
comparative more bloat, superlative most bloat
1. (obsolete) bloated.
  Quotations
  Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed
  1602, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark‎, act 3, scene 4: The Queen's Closet

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