Antonyms for bloat

Grammar : Verb

Spell : bloht

Phonetic Transcription : bloʊt

Definition of bloat

Origin : 1670s, "to cause to swell" (earlier, in reference to cured fish, "to cause to be soft," 1610s), from now obsolete bloat (adj.), attested from c.1300 as "soft, flabby, flexible, pliable," but by 17c. meaning "puffed up, swollen." Perhaps from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse blautr "soaked, soft from being cooked in liquid" (cf. Swedish blöt fisk "soaked fish"), possibly from Proto-Germanic *blaut-, from PIE *bhleu- "to swell, well up, overflow," an extension of root *bhel- (2) "to blow, inflate, swell" (see bole).
Influenced by or combined with Old English blawan "blow, puff." Figurative use by 1711. Intransitive meaning "to swell, to become swollen" is from 1735. Related: Bloated; bloating.

verb blow up like a balloon

Example sentences :

The fly had pierced a blood vessel and would now bloat itself with blood.
Extract from : « The Lost Wagon » by James Arthur Kjelgaard

The consekence was, he began to swell an bloat like a mad porkepine.
Extract from : « Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia » by Seba Smith

Is this a healthy fat which we are putting on him, or is it bloat?
Extract from : « A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories » by Edgar Wilson (Bill) Nye

Should you be still anxious to arrive at Bloat, you cannot do better than——'
Extract from : « Berry And Co. » by Dornford Yates

But her distress was still very great, and her feet soon began to turn purple, and she began to bloat in her stomach and bowels.
Extract from : « Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders » by William A. Alcott

An he swaggers around me and thinks hes a boss man because he licked that bloat Sheedy.
Extract from : « The Snow-Burner » by Henry Oyen

How ruthlessly many of them have been turned out of office that some bloat of a politician might take their place!
Extract from : « T. De Witt Talmage » by T. De Witt Talmage

Had good digestion through the growing period, but subsequently became subject to "bloat of wind" in abdomen.
Extract from : « New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers » by Various

From the second dose her water became natural and she did not bloat so much in p.m.
Extract from : « New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers » by Various

Come on and watch the free show while the bloat makes out your check and mine.
Extract from : « The Lumberjack Sky Pilot » by Thomas D. Whittles

Synonyms for bloat

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