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Examples of inflate
inflate
Late budgets waste tax money and inflate the cost of building schools and roads.
From the sfgate.com
Dal Santo said the law change didn't inflate the number of truant students much.
From the dailyherald.com
Every side has an agenda here and there's a lot of incentive to inflate figures.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
There's no evidence the White House sought to inflate job numbers in the report.
From the usatoday.com
Do not, however, let this success inflate your ego and make you feel infallible.
From the post-gazette.com
If energy costs continue to inflate, look for Americans to get innovative again.
From the freep.com
If the shaft breaks, the SUVs will lose power and the side air bags may inflate.
From the washingtonpost.com
In the meantime, Europe remains divided between the inflate and default options.
From the economist.com
Puff pieces like this just inflate his already pointlessly overblown reputation.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated"
- Fill with gas or air; "inflate a balloons"
- Cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit; "The war inflated the economy"
- Increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value; "inflate the currency"
- Balloon: become inflated; "The sails ballooned"
- (inflated) hyperbolic: enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness; "a hyperbolic style"
- (inflated) high-flown: pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals); "high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school"; "a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution"
- (Inflating) In computer science, in the context of data storage and transmission, serialization is the process of converting a data structure or object into a sequence of bits so that it can be stored in a file or memory buffer, or transmitted across a network connection link to be "resurrected" ...
- To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally; To enlarge by filling with air (or a gas)
