intransitive verb. To cause to swell up or inflate, as with liquid or gas.

intransitive verb. To cure (fish) by soaking in brine and half-drying in smoke.

intransitive verb. To become swollen or inflated.

noun. A swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of cattle and domestic animals that is caused by excessive gas formation following fermentation of ingested watery legumes or green forage.

noun. An excess or surfeit, as of employees, expenses, or procedures.

Puffed; swollen; turgid: as, “the bloat king,”

Cured by smoking: as, a bloat herring.

See bloater.

noun. The bloater whitefish, Argyrosomus prognathus.

To make turgid or swollen, as with air, water, etc.; cause to swell, as with a dropsical humor; inflate; puff up; hence, make vain, conceited, etc.

To become swollen; be puffed out or dilated; dilate.

To cure by smoking, as herrings. Formerly spelled blote.

transitive 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.

transitive verb. To inflate; to puff up; to make vain.

adjective. Bloated.

intransitive verb. To grow turgid as by effusion of liquid in the cellular tissue; to puff out; to swell.

noun. A term of contempt for a worthless, dissipated fellow.

transitive verb. To dry (herrings) in smoke. See blote.

verb. to cause to become distended

verb. to fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell

verb. to fill with vanity or conceit

verb. to preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking, (as in bloated herring).

noun. distention of the abdomen from death

verb. become bloated or swollen or puff up

verb. make bloated or swollen

noun. swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of domestic animals caused by excessive gas

"Maybe it's time for a split of the code into two paths, one for those who think bloat is good, and one for us that looks for speed."

contract  deflate  shrink  

intumesce  lump  puffiness  swell  swell up  

Capote  Choate  Vote  afloat  boat  

Deborah  backbiting  bimolecular  birdcall  boiler plate  

accrue  accumulate  add to  advance  aggrandize  

blote  

bloated  bloating  bloats