Bloat Definition
blōt
bloating, bloats
verb
To swell, as with water or air.
Webster's New World
To puff up, as with pride.
Webster's New World
To make or become overly large.
A bloated state budget.
Webster's New World
To cure or preserve (herring, etc.) by soaking in salt water, smoking, and half-drying.
Webster's New World
noun
A person or thing that has bloated.
Webster's New World
A gassy swelling of the abdomen usually caused by watery forage.
Webster's New World
An excess or surfeit, as of employees, expenses, or procedures.
Corporate bloat.
American Heritage
Abdominal distention due to swallowed air or intestinal gas production.
American Heritage Medicine
(figuratively) Wasteful use of space.
Adding an e-mail feature to this simple text editor would be pointless bloat.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
- overdistension
- meteorism
adjective
Swollen or distended; puffed up.
Webster's New World
(obsolete) Bloated.
Wiktionary
Origin of Bloat
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From Middle English blout soft, puffed from Old Norse blautr soft, soaked bhleu- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Perhaps from Old Norse blautr (“soft”), akin to Danish blød and German bloß (“nude”).
From Wiktionary
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