Dictionary Entry
inflate
inflate is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Blown in; inflated. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1participial adjective
Blown in; inflated.
- 2transitive verb
To swell or distend with air or gas; to dilate; to expand; to enlarge; as, to inflate a bladder; to inflate the lungs.
- 3transitive verb
Fig.: To swell; to puff up; to elate; as, to inflate one with pride or vanity.
- 4transitive verb
To cause to become unduly expanded or increased; as, to inflate the currency.
- 5intransitive verb
To expand; to fill; to distend.
- 6verb
become inflated
"The sails ballooned"
- 7verb
fill with gas or air
"inflate a balloons"
- 8verb
exaggerate or make bigger
"The charges were inflated"
- 9verb
increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value
"inflate the currency"
- 10verb
cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit
"The war inflated the economy"
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