Dictionary Entry
bloat
bloat is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, adjective, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular tissue, producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied with softness. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular tissue, producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied with softness.
- 2transitive verb
To inflate; to puff up; to make vain.
- 3intransitive verb
To grow turgid as by effusion of liquid in the cellular tissue; to puff out; to swell.
- 4adjective
Bloated.
- 5noun
A term of contempt for a worthless, dissipated fellow.
- 6transitive verb
To dry (herrings) in smoke. See Blote.
- 7noun
swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of domestic animals caused by excessive gas
- 8verb
become bloated or swollen or puff up
"The dead man's stomach was bloated"
- 9verb
make bloated or swollen
"Hunger bloated the child's belly"
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