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| bloated | |
| 1. adj. Swollen with fluid or gas. |  |
| 2. adj. Excessively or extremely large or wealthy. | |
| 3. adj. (computing, of software) Excessively overloaded with features, known as bloatware. | |
| 4. adj. (of food) Slightly salted and lightly smoked (as in bloated herring). | |
| bloat | |
| 1. v. to cause to become distended. | |
| 2. v. (intransitive) (veterinary medicine) to get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant. | |
| 3. v. to fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell | |
| 4. v. (intransitive) to become distended; to swell up | |
| 5. v. to fill with vanity or conceit | |
| 6. v. to preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking | |
| bloated herring | |
| 7. n. distention of the abdomen from death | |
| 8. n. (veterinary medicine) pathological overdistention of rumen with gas in a ruminant | |
| 9. n. (figurative) wasteful use of space | |
| Adding an e-mail feature to this simple text editor would be pointless bloat. | |
| 10. n. (derogatory, slang) A worthless, dissipated fellow. | |
| 11. adj. (obsolete) bloated | |
