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Adjective: bloated  blow-tid
  1. Abnormally expanded, esp. by fluids or gas
    "hungry children with bloated stomachs";
    - puffy, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid, distended, swollen
Verb: bloat  blowt
  1. Become bloated, swollen or puff up
    "The dead man's stomach was bloated"
     
  2. Make bloated or swollen
    "Hunger bloated the child's belly"
     
  3. Become over-large and cumbersome
    "software bloated with features that many people never use"
     
  4. Preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking

See also: unhealthy

Type of: intumesce, puff, swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce

Encyclopedia: Bloated

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