| 单词 | bloat |
| 释义 | bloat /bloht/, v.t. 1. to expand or distend, as with air, water, etc.; cause to swell: Overeating bloated their bellies. 2. to puff up; make vain or conceited: The promotion has bloated his ego to an alarming degree. 3. to cure (fishes) as bloaters. v.i. 4. to become swollen; be puffed out or dilated: The carcass started to bloat. n. 5. Also called hoven. Vet. Pathol. (in cattle, sheep, and horses) a distention of the rumen or paunch or of the large colon by gases of fermentation, caused by eating ravenously of green forage, esp. legumes. 6. a person or thing that is bloated. 7. bloater (defs. 1, 2). [1250-1300; earlier bloat (adj.) soft, puffy, ME blout < ON blautr wet, soft] Syn. 1. swell, inflate, enlarge, balloon. |
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