Word Meanings - INFLATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Blown in; inflated. Chaucer.

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• INFLATE
  Blown in; inflated. Chaucer.
• INFLATED
  Hollow and distended, as a perianth, corolla, nectary, or pericarp. Martyn. 4. Distended or enlarged fictitiously; as, inflated prices, etc. (more info) 1. Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas. 2. Turgid;
• INFLATER
  One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange.
• BLOWN
  1. Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas. 2. Stale; worthless. 3. Out of breath; tired; exhausted. "Their horses much blown." Sir W. Scott. 4. Covered with the eggs and larvæ of flies;
• INFLATINGLY
  In a manner tending to inflate.
• INFLATIONIST
  One who favors an increased or very large issue of paper money.
• INFLATABLE
  That may be inflated.
• INFLATUS
  A blowing or breathing into; inflation; inspiration. The divine breath that blows the nostrils out To ineffable inflatus. Mrs. Browning.
• INFLATION
  1. The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement. Boyle. 2. The state of being puffed up, as with pride; conceit; vanity. B. Jonson. 3. Undue expansion or increase, from
• FLYBLOWN
  Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul. Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled. Thackeray.
• HIGH-BLOWN
  Inflated, as with conceit.
• OUTBLOWN
  Inflated with wind. Dryden.
• FULL-BLOWN
  1. Fully expanded, as a blossom; as, a full-bloun rose. Denham. 2. Fully distended with wind, as a sail. Dryden.
• INBLOWN
  Blown in or into.