Definition of inflate

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Inflate (v. t.) Fig.: To swell; to puff up; to elate; as, to inflate one with pride or vanity..

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Flown :: Flown (a.) Flushed, inflated..
Sufflation :: Sufflate (v. t.) To blow up; to inflate; to inspire.
Johnsonian :: Johnsonian (a.) Pertaining to or resembling Dr. Johnson or his style; pompous; inflated.
Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell..
Puff :: Puff (n.) To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
Float :: Float (v. i.) Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver.
Turgid :: Turgid (a.) Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit..
Fustian :: Fustian (a.) Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history..
Inflate :: Inflate (v. i.) To expand; to fill; to distend.
Fustian :: Fustian (n.) An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high-sounding words are used,' above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast..
Inflatable :: Inflatable (a.) That may be inflated.
Physemaria :: Physemaria (n. pl.) A group of simple marine organisms, usually classed as the lowest of the sponges. They have inflated hollow bodies..
Bombast :: Bombast (n.) Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
Swell :: Swell (v. t.) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate; as, to be swelled with pride or haughtiness..
Gassy :: Gassy (a.) Full of gas; like gas. Hence: [Colloq.] Inflated; full of boastful or insincere talk.
Johnsonese :: "Johnsonese (n.) The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words..
Puffer :: Puffer (n.) Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the species of Tetrodon and Diodon; -- called also blower, puff-fish, swellfish, and globefish..
Turgesce :: Turgesce (v. i.) To become turgid; to swell or be inflated.
Bombast :: Bombast (v. t.) To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.
Blow :: Blow (v. t.) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up..
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