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Bloat   Listen
verb
Bloat  v. i.  To grow turgid as by effusion of liquid in the cellular tissue; to puff out; to swell.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Bloat" Quotes from Famous Books



... How faint the light, how chill the air! Lo! arm'd with whirlwind, hail, and frost, Fierce Winter desolates the year. The fields resign their cheerful bloom, No more the breezes breathe perfume, No more the warbling waters roll; Deserts of snow fatigue the eye, Successive tempests bloat the sky, And gloomy ...
— Poetical Works of Akenside - [Edited by George Gilfillan] • Mark Akenside

... kinds of clover there is some danger from bloat in grazing them with cattle or sheep while yet quite succulent, and the danger is intensified when the animals are turned in to graze with empty stomachs or when the clover is wet with dew or rain. When such bloating occurs, for the method of procedure ...
— Clovers and How to Grow Them • Thomas Shaw



Words linked to "Bloat" :   swell up, distend, tumefy, intumesce, swelling, tumesce, swell, lump



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