bloat

«bloat» in Mova's school dictionary: To swell up and become bigger than normal, usually with… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb (bloat, bloats, bloated, bloating); noun (bloat, uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) To swell up and become bigger than normal, usually with air, gas or liquid. tree →

2) (noun) A swollen feeling in the stomach, or a disease of cows and sheep when their stomachs fill with gas. tree →

3) (computing, informal) Too much extra stuff making something big and slow, as in software bloat. tree →

sense in the lessons

In health and everyday life, eating too fast or drinking fizzy drinks can bloat your tummy. In computing, «bloatware» slows a phone down. In stories, «bloated» describes something swollen and unpleasant.

examples

• Fizzy drinks make my tummy bloat. tree →
• Cows can get bloat if they eat too much wet clover. tree →
• The dead fish had bloated in the water. tree →
• Too many apps cause bloat on your phone. tree →
• Beans sometimes make people feel bloated. tree →

note

More common as the adjective «bloated». Regular verb.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bloat» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.