Crossword-Solution: BLOAT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bloat | v. t. | 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. |
| Bloat | v. t. | To inflate; to puff up; to make vain. |
| Bloat | v. i. | To grow turgid as by effusion of liquid in the cellular tissue; to puff out; to swell. |
| Bloat | a. | Bloated. |
| Bloat | n. | A term of contempt for a worthless, dissipated fellow. |
| Bloat | v. t. | To dry (herrings) in smoke. See Blote. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BLOAT | anagram | ABLOT, ABOLT, BALTO |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AARE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with BLOAT (5)
Some old-timers impatient with commercialization and kernel bloat still maintain that V7 was the Last True UNIX.
When he thinks he sees them wriggle, when he thinks he sees them bloat, It will cure him just to think of Johnson's Snakebite Antidote.' Then he rushed to the museum, found a scientific man -- 'Trot me out a deadly serpent, just the deadliest you can; I intend to let him bite me, all the risk I will endure, Just to prove the sterling value of my wondrous snakebite cure.
Not this, by no means, that I bid you do: Let the bloat King tempt you again to bed, Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse, And let him, for a pair of reechy kisses, Or paddling in your neck with his damn’d fingers, Make you to ravel all this matter out, That I essentially am not in madness, But mad in craft.
And there were young girls, of eighteen and twenty, with trim bodies and faces yet untouched with twist and bloat, who had fetched the bottom of the Abyss plump, in one swift fall.
Recent tendencies to featuritis and software bloat can expand the RAM footprint of an OS to the point of making it nearly unusable in practice.
Quotes with BLOAT (3)
May the economic discrimination you impose on your own people bloat your mind. That polluted rubbish occupyingyour mind-set needs to be swept clean. May the disgusted look you impose on those you judge poor burn your eyes. That evil look occupying your clear vision needs to land in the bin. May that shameful attitude you impose on those you wish to feel lesser bring your soul to restlessness. That fake character you display needs to be thrown out of the window.
Hail, happiness, then, and after happiness, hail not those dreams which bloat the sharp image as spotted mirrors do the face in a country-inn parlour; dreams which splinter the whole and tear us asunder and wound us and split us apart in the night when we would sleep; but sleep, sleep, so deep that all shapes are ground to dust of infinite softness, water of dimness inscrutable, and there, folded, shrouded, like a mummy, like a moth, prone let us lie on the sand at the bottom of sleep.
I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 98 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).