Word Meanings - BALLOONED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Swelled out like a balloon.

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• BALLOONED
  Swelled out like a balloon.
• BALLOONING SPIDER
  A spider which has the habit of rising into the air. Many kinds do this while young by ejecting threads of silk until the force of the wind upon them carries the spider aloft.
• SWELLTOAD
  A swellfish.
• BALLOONING
  The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales. (more info) 1. The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them.
• BALLOON FISH
  A fish of the genus Diodon or the genus Tetraodon, having the power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus. See Globefish, and Bur fish.
• BALLOONER
  One who goes up in a balloon; an aëronaut.
• BALLOON
  A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London. (more info) 1. A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one
• SWELL
  1. To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation. 2. To increase in
• SWELLDOM
  People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively.
• SWELLING
  an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling. The superficies of such plates are not even, but have many cavities and swellings. Sir I. Newton. (more info) 1. The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring;
• BALLOONIST
  An aëronaut.
• BALLOONRY
  The art or practice of ascending in a balloon; aëronautics.
• SWELLISH
  Dandified; stylish.
• SWELLFISH
  Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon.
• UPSWELL
  To swell or rise up.
• UNSWELL
  To sink from a swollen state; to subside. Chaucer.
• HEARTSWELLING
  Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser.
• PASSIVE BALLOON; PASSIVE AEROPLANE
  One unprovided with motive power.
• BOSWELLISM
  The style of Boswell.
• SOUNDING BALLOON
  An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aëronautic purposes.
• PILOT BALLOON
  A small, unmanned balloon sent up to indicate the direction of air currents.
• HIGH-SWELLING
  Inflated; boastful.
• OUTSWELL
  1. To exceed in swelling. 2. To swell beyond; to overflow. Hewyt.