verb / noun
bloat
BLOHT/bləʊt/
Excessive swelling from accumulated material.
Gas makes the tin's metal lid bloat outward above its rigid sides.
Etymology
The obsolete adjective bloat shifted from “soft, flabby” to “puffed up, swollen.” The verb developed from that swollen sense, describing either causing swelling or becoming swollen.
In context
let's say you have too much water that would then cause those osmoreceptors to start to swell right they start to bloat
More examples
- The swollen animal was treated for bloat.
- Heavy paperwork bloated the administrative process.
- The report criticizes the organization's unnecessary bloat.
Forms
bloat · bloats · bloated · bloating