bloat

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.

   “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”

5. To fill with vanity or conceit.

   “1675, John Dryden, Prologue to Circe by Dr. Davenant Encourage him, and bloat him up with Praise”

6. (dated)To preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking.

   “bloated herring”

7. To increase to an excessive amount.

   “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.”

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.

   “Adding an e-mail feature to this simple text editor would be pointless bloat.”

4. (countable, dated, derogatory, slang, uncountable)A worthless, dissipated fellow.
5. (collective, countable, uncountable)A group of hippopotamuses.

   “A group of hippos is called a bloat.”

adj

1. (obsolete)bloated.

   “Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed”