Definition of bombast

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Bombast (v. t.) To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.

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Carmagnole :: Carmagnole (n.) A bombastic report from the French armies.
Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a swelling style..
Periergy :: Periergy (n.) A bombastic or labored style.
Grandiloquence :: Grandiloquence (n.) The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense.
Tumor :: Tumor (n.) Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity.
Turgescency :: Turgescency (n.) Empty magnificence or pompousness; inflation; bombast; turgidity.
High-flown :: High-flown (a.) Turgid; extravagant; bombastic; inflated; as, high-flown language..
Bombastical :: Bombastical (a.) Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated.
Rant :: Rant (n.) High-sounding language, without importance or dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of fanatics..
Bombast :: Bombast (a.) High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.
Fustian :: Fustian (a.) Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history..
Bombastic :: Bombastic (a.) Alt. of Bombastica.
Spreader :: Spread-eagle (a.) Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech..
Rant :: Rant (v. i.) To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher..
Bombastry :: Bombastry (n.) Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian.
Gigantesque :: Gigantesque (a.) Befitting a giant; bombastic; magniloquent.
Tumorous :: Tumorous (a.) Inflated; bombastic.
Bombast :: Bombast (n.) Originally, cotton, or cotton wool..
Turgid :: Turgid (a.) Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking..
Inflated :: Inflated (a.) Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an inflated style..
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