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opblazen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • blimp noun An airship kept in shape by the pressure of the gas inside it, rather than a rigid frame.
  • bloat verb To swell up, especially with gas or fluid.
  • explode verb To burst apart suddenly and violently, often with a loud noise.
  • inflate verb To fill something with air or gas so that it expands.
  • inflation noun A general and sustained rise in prices, which reduces the purchasing power of money.

Senses

opblazen is used for these senses in English:

  • blimp (slang, intransitive) To expand like a blimp or balloon; to become fat.
  • bloat To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.
  • inflate (transitive) To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally
  • inflation An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas or liquid.
  • upblow (transitive, archaic) To inflate.

blimp — full definition

  1. noun An airship kept in shape by the pressure of the gas inside it, rather than a rigid frame.
  2. noun Informal, sometimes unkind, term for an overweight person.

bloat — full definition

  1. verb To swell up, especially with gas or fluid.
  2. verb To fill something with unnecessary bulk or excess.
  3. noun A swollen, uncomfortable feeling in the stomach, or unnecessary excess in something.

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