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Aufblähen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bloat verb To swell up, especially with gas or fluid.
  • inflate verb To fill something with air or gas so that it expands.

Senses

Aufblähen is used for these senses in English:

  • bloat (veterinary medicine) Pathological overdistention of rumen with gas in a ruminant.
  • bloat To cause to become distended.
  • bloat (intransitive, veterinary medicine) To get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
  • inflate (transitive) To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally
  • puff out (ambitransitive) To inflate.

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.

inflate — full definition

  1. verb To fill something with air or gas so that it expands.
  2. verb To increase something, such as a price or figure, beyond its real or reasonable level.

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