BLOAT
Dictionary entry overview: What does bloat mean?
• BLOAT (noun)
The noun BLOAT has 1 sense:
1. swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of domestic animals caused by excessive gas
Familiarity information: BLOAT used as a noun is very rare.
• BLOAT (verb)
The verb BLOAT has 2 senses:
1. become bloated or swollen or puff up
2. make bloated or swollen
Familiarity information: BLOAT used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BLOAT (noun)
Meaning:
Swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of domestic animals caused by excessive gas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("bloat" is a kind of...):
lump; puffiness; swelling (abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement)
• BLOAT (verb)
Meaning:
Become bloated or swollen or puff up
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
The dead man's stomach was bloated
Hypernyms (to "bloat" is one way to...):
intumesce; swell; swell up; tumefy; tumesce (expand abnormally)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sentence example:
Did his feet bloat?
Meaning:
Make bloated or swollen
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
Hunger bloated the child's belly
Hypernyms (to "bloat" is one way to...):
swell (cause to become swollen)
Cause:
bloat (become bloated or swollen or puff up)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bloat"):
distend (cause to expand as it by internal pressure)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
