bloat

verb
🔊/bləʊt/
🔊/bləʊt/
[transitive, intransitive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they bloat
🔊/bləʊt/
🔊/bləʊt/
he / she / it bloats
🔊/bləʊts/
🔊/bləʊts/
past simple bloated
🔊/ˈbləʊtɪd/
🔊/ˈbləʊtɪd/
past participle bloated
🔊/ˈbləʊtɪd/
🔊/ˈbləʊtɪd/
-ing form bloating
🔊/ˈbləʊtɪŋ/
🔊/ˈbləʊtɪŋ/
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  1. bloat something to swell (= become bigger or rounder) or make something swell, especially in an unpleasant way(使)膨胀,肿胀
    • Her features had been bloated by years of drinking.她酗酒多年,已变得面部浮肿。🔊🔊
    Word Originlate 17th cent. (in the sense ‘cause to swell’): from obsolete bloat ‘swollen, soft’, perhaps from Old Norse blautr ‘soft, flabby’.