Definition of Bloated

1. 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.

Definition of Bloated

1. Verb. (past of bloat) ¹

2. Adjective. Swollen with fluid or gas. ¹

3. Adjective. Excessively or extremely large or wealthy. ¹

4. Adjective. (computing) Describing software which is overloaded with features, known as bloatware. ¹

5. Adjective. (context: of food) Slightly salted and lightly smoked (as in bloated herring). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bloated

1. bloat [v] - See also: bloat

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bloated

blivets
blivit
blivits
blix
blixite
blizzard
blizzarded
blizzarding
blizzardly
blizzardous
blizzards
blizzardy
blizzaster
bln
bloat
bloated (current term)
bloatedly
bloatedness
bloater
bloater paste
bloaters
bloating
bloatings
bloats
bloatware
bloatwares
blob
blob out
blobbed
blobbed out

Literary usage of Bloated

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... paff/ oí bloated appearance, and the configuration of tbo chest is altered, assuming tlio character known aa the ..."

2. The Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right by John Wilson Croker, Louis John Jennings (1885)
"... of Democracy—The Queen's Marriage—Louis Napoleon's Raid on Boulogne —The Eastern Question in 1840—The "bloated" Armaments of Europe—Hostile Feeling in ..."

3. A Text-book of medicine for students and practitioners by Adolf von Strümpell (1893)
"The skin of the face is often somewhat bloated in anaesthesia of the trigeminus, and it is cyanotic and feels cool. The reflexes are lost in peripheral ..."

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