Bloated

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bloat \Bloat\ (bl[=o]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bloated}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Bloating}.] [Cf. Icel. blotna to become soft, blautr
     soft, wet, Sw. bl["o]t soft, bl["o]ta to soak; akin to G.
     bloss bare, and AS. ble['a]t wretched; or perh. fr. root of
     Eng. 5th blow. Cf. {Blote}.]
     1. To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling


        of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular
        tissue, producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied
        with softness.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To inflate; to puff up; to make vain. --Dryden.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bloated \Bloat"ed\ (bl[=o]t"[e^]d), p. a.
     Distended beyond the natural or usual size, as by the
     presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a
     bloated face. Also, puffed up with pride; pompous.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bloated
       adj : abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry
             children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly
             distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids";
             "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid
             flesh" [syn: {distended}, {puffed}, {puffy}, {swollen},
              {tumescent}, {tumid}, {turgid}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  206 Moby Thesaurus words for "bloated":
     accelerated, adipose, aggrandized, amplified, arrogant, augmented,
     bagging, baggy, ballooning, bandy, bandy-legged, beefed-up, beefy,
     bellying, big-bellied, billowing, billowy, blemished,
     bloated with pride, blown up, blowzy, bombastic, boosted, bosomy,
     bowlegged, brawny, broadened, bulbose, bulbous, bulging, bumped,
     bumpy, bunched, bunchy, burly, bursting, buxom, choked, chubby,
     chunky, club-footed, congested, corpulent, crammed, crowded,
     deepened, defaced, deformed, dilated, disfigured, distended,
     drenched, dropsical, dumpy, dwarfed, edematous, elated, elevated,
     enchymatous, enhanced, enlarged, expanded, extended, fat, fattish,
     filled to overflowing, flatfooted, flatulent, fleshy, flushed,
     flushed with pride, formal, full, fully, gassy, glutted, gorged,
     grandiloquent, gross, grotesque, heavyset, hefty, heightened,
     hiked, hillocky, hippy, hummocky, hyperemic, ill-made,
     ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, important, imposing, in spate,
     incrassate, increased, inflated, intensified, jam-packed, jammed,
     jazzed up, knock-kneed, lusty, magisterial, magnified, malformed,
     marred, meaty, misbegotten, misproportioned, misshapen, monstrous,
     moutonnee, multiplied, mutilated, obese, out of shape, overblown,
     overburdened, overcharged, overfed, overflowing, overfraught,
     overfreighted, overfull, overgrown, overladen, overloaded,
     overstocked, overstuffed, oversupplied, overweight, overweighted,
     packed, paunchy, pigeon-toed, plethoric, plump, pneumatic, podgy,
     pompous, pontifical, portly, potbellied, pouching, proliferated,
     pudgy, puffed up, puffy, pug-nosed, pursy, rachitic, raised,
     ready to burst, reinforced, rickety, roly-poly, rotund, rounded,
     running over, satiated, saturated, self-important, simous,
     snub-nosed, soaked, solemn, spread, square, squat, squatty,
     stalwart, stiffened, stilted, stocky, stout, strapping,
     strengthened, stuffed, stuffed up, stuffy, stumpy, supercharged,
     supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swaybacked, swelled,
     swelling, swollen, talipedic, thick-bodied, thickset, tightened,
     top-heavy, truncated, tubby, tumid, turgid, ventose, verrucated,
     verrucose, warty, well-fed, widened, windy