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Examples of bloat
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A true fashionista would rather bloat than be caught using last season's prefix.
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He tried to avoid the bloat that accompanied the transition from records to CDs.
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Whether you think the Big East suffers media bloat or not, that is some sprint.
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Measuring administrative bloat, or a lack thereof, in public education is tricky.
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Rep. Lee Terry said the bill would bloat government and add to the national debt.
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Elected officials should work hard to cut costs and not to bloat the bureaucracy.
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Government-procurement bribery and political patronage bloat government spending.
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The face and neck bloat to enormous size, and a small hump appears on the back.
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If the situation wasn't righted, fluid would eventually bloat all of her tissues.
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- Become bloated or swollen or puff up; "The dead man's stomach was bloated"
- Swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of domestic animals caused by excessive gas
- Bloat is a medical condition in which the stomach becomes overstretched by excessive gas content. It is also commonly referred to as torsion, gastric torsion, and gastric dilatation-volvulus (GDV) when the stomach is also twisted. ...
- Bloat is a fictional character from the Wild Cards series of books. He was created for the books by Stephen Leigh. An adolescent boy transformed by the Wild Card virus into a monstrous Joker, he resembles a tiny human torso atop a massively bloated sluglike body. ...
- Bloating is any abnormal general swelling, or increase in diameter of the abdominal area. As a symptom, the patient feels a full and tight abdomen, which may cause abdominal pain sometimes accompanied by increased borborygmus or more seriously the total lack of borborygmus.
- Distention of the abdomen from death; to cause to become distended; to fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell; to fill with vanity or conceit; to preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking, (as in bloated herring)
- (bloated) Swollen with fluid or gas; Excessively or extremely large or wealthy; Describing software which is overloaded with features, known as bloatware; Slightly salted and lightly smoked (as in bloated herring)
- (Bloated) Excessive mid-bass around 250 Hz. Poorly damped low frequencies, low-frequency resonances. See tubby.
- (Bloated) sensation of feeling full in the stomach or abdomen and must be differentiated from distension which is visible enlargement of the abdomen.
