Inflate

Definition: Inflate

Inflate

Verb

1. Fill with gas or air; "inflate a balloons".

2. Exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated".

3. Cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit; "The war inflated the economy".

4. Increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value; "inflate the currency".

5. Become inflated; "The sails ballooned".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "inflate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Etymology: Inflate \In*flate"\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Inflated; Inflating.]. (references)

Computing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Inflate

Diffuseness

Verb: be diffuse; Adjective: run out on, descant, expatiate, enlarge, dilate, amplify, expand, inflate; launch out, branch out; rant.

Expansion

Render larger; (large; ); expand, spread, extend, aggrandize, distend, develop, amplify, spread out, widen, magnify, rarefy, inflate, puff, blow up, stuff, pad, cram; exaggerate; fatten.

Money

Inflate, deflate; debase; devalue, revalue.

Vanity

Render vain; Adjective: inspire with vanity; Noun: inflate, puff up, turn up, turn one's head.

Wind

Fan, ventilate; inflate, perflate; blow up.

Crosswords: Inflate

Because you have no idea just how frustrating it is working your ass off trying to inflate a tiny little balloon inside somebody's clogged artery when all that person has to do, really is--oh, I don't know--go for a walk in the morning or choke down a fresh green salad (Scrubs; writing credit: Gabrielle Allan; Janae Bakken)

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Books

• How to inflate your income and assets during the Reagan years (reference)

• Swell: Inflate (Specialtion) (reference)

• The Plastic Bag Will Not Inflate (reference)

  (more book examples)

Consumer Goods

• Lumiscope 1085M Auto Inflate Blood Pressure Monitor (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Must you inflate your tire here, Edward? : I detest the very air of this place!. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Children

Uganda

According to official statistics, there is a 95 percent enrollment rate; however, this figure widely is believed to be inflated as a result of both school dropouts and a tendency of some schools to inflate attendance figures for funding purposes. (references)

Political Economy

Albania

Additional issues affecting business include the substandard transportation and energy infrastructures that inflate production and distribution costs, an ineffective and unresponsive judiciary, and high taxes relative to the level of services provided by the government. (references)

Political Rights

Central African Republic

Before the presidential election, there were credible reports of attempts to inflate sharply the number of registered voters in pro-MLPC northern areas, although this was corrected before the polling. (references)

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Expression using "inflate": inflate a balloon. Additional references.

Albanian

inflacionoj, krijoj inflacion, krekosem (strut), fryj (be sulky, blow, blow out, breathe, buzz off, clear off, distend, overblow, pout at, puff, puff out, swell, wind). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كتب بتكلف, ‏نفخ (balloon, be puffed up, belly out, bloat, blow up, distend, distension, fill out, inflation, insufflation, plump, pout, puff, pumping, sulk, swell out, windiness), ‏تضخم (distend, expansion, swell, thicken), ‏إنتفخ (bag, balloon, belly, billow, bloat, bulge, distend, fill, fluff, heave, puff, strut, swell), ‏رفع (boost, brace, bring to his feet, bring up, cat, crane, dismiss, elevate, elevation, exalt, expand, fork out, heave, heighten, hike, hoist, hold up, jack, lever, leverage, lift, lifting, mount, pick, pick me up, pick up, promote, purchase, push up, put up with smth., raise, rear, rise, rising, rode, roll up, scroll, send up, set up, sling, take up, thrust, turn up, up-end, upheave, uphold, uplift). (various references)

Bulgarian 

карам да се възгордее (puff up), напомпвам (blow up, pump up), надувам (blow, blow out, swell), изпълвам (fill, inform, infuse, inhabit, occupy). (various references)

Chinese 

膨胀 (Dilatation, Dilate, Dilated, Dilating, Distension, inflated, Inflating, swell, swelling). (various references)

Czech

nahustit, nafouknout se (put on a sulky expression). (various references)

Danish

opblæse. (various references)

Dutch

opblazen (blow up). (various references)

Esperanto

plenblovi, ŝveligi. (various references)

Farsi 

پرازگازکردن زیادبالابردن , پرازبادکردن , مغرورکردن , متورم شدن (Bag, Bulge, Distend), بادکردن (Bag, Bloat, Brag, Bulge, Distend, Heave, Perk, Swell). (various references)

Finnish

pullistaa (distend, swell), puhaltaa jotakin ilmaa täyteen (blow up). (various references)

French

hausser (increase). (various references)

German

aufblasen (bloat, blow out, blow up, inflation, puff out, puff up, to bloat, to blow up, to inflate), aufpumpen (blow, inflation, pump, pump up), aufblähen (billow out, blow out, distend, distention, swell, to inflate). (various references)

Greek 

φουσκώνω (billow, bloat, blow up, bulge, distend, expand, fill out, puff, pump, pump up, surge, swell). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"ת� פח (bulge, distend, swell), ל� פח (bamboozle, blow up, exaggerate, puff, swell, word). (various references)

Hungarian

felpuffaszt (to blow out, to hove, to inflate), felfúj (balloon, blew, blow up, blown, distend, puff up, to balloon, to ballyho, to bloat, to blow, to blow up a football tight, to distend, to expand, to hove, to inflate, to puff, to puff up, to pump up). (various references)

Indonesian

menggelembungkan (distend, mark up). (various references)

Irish

séid (blow; inflate). (various references)

Italian

inflazionare (overdo), gonfiarsi (bloat, bulge, gather, heave, swell), gonfiare (bloat, blow, blow up, exaggerate, pad, plump, puff out, puff up, pump up, swell). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

膨らます (to bulge, to expand, to inflate, to swell). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふくらます (to bulge, to expand, to inflate, to swell). (various references)

Korean 

팽창지키십시�". (various references)

Manx

sheidey seose (balloon, puff), chionney (clench, cog, erection, fasten, grit, momentum, oblige, press, pressurize, pump up, put on, screw up, straighten, strain, tauten, tighten), chionnaghey (brace), bolgey (abdominal, balloon, dilate, dilation, enlarge, fill, inflation, swell), att (bump, distention, enlarge, enlargement, heart, protrusion, rise, surge, swell). (various references)

Norwegian

pumpe opp. (various references)

Pig Latin

inflateay.(various references)

Portuguese

infle, inflar (puff), inflacionar, inchar de orgulho, tornarinchado, envaidecer (puff), enfunar (belly, swell), encher de ar (insufflate), aumentar (accrete, accrue, add, aggrandize, amplify, augment, develop, double, eke, enhance, enlarge, expand, explode, get about, go up, grow, heighten, increase, intensify, lengthen, magnify, mark up, raise, redouble, redound, rise, steepen, stiffen, thicken, up, wax). (various references)

Romanian

umple (choke, clog, comprise, contain, cram, crowd, farce, fill, fill up, flood, heap, impregnate, inform, intersperse, Lade, pack, replenish, stain, stock, stop, store, stuff, suffuse, supply), umfla (bag, belly, blow, bunt, expand, fill, fill out, grow, heighten, overdraw, pad, puff, swell), face sã se umflã în pene, încãrca (bedizen, burden, charge, encumber, glut, heap, load, load with ball, pack, pile up, prime). (various references)

Russian 

надувать (bamboozle, chisel, codfish, cozen, distend, finagle, fob, jockey, queer, stiffed, stiffs, swell). (various references)

Scottish

séid (blow, breathe upon or into, pant, puff). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pumpati (pump), podići (boost, elevate, lift, pass under, pick up, pull up, put up, raise, rear, uplift, upraise), naduvati (blow up, distend, puff, puff at, puff up), naduti (bloat, puff, swell). (various references)

Spanish

inflar (bloat, blow up, pump up). (various references)

Swedish

blåsa upp (balloon, distend). (various references)

Turkish

hava basmak (pump, pump up), şişirmek (bag, balloon, bloat, bloat up, blow up, bulk, distend, embroider, exaggerate, expand, fill, heave, heighten, overcharge, pad, pad out, pile it on, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, put it on, put it on thick, run up, swell out, swell up, tumefy). (various references)

Turkmen 

pцkretmek, gьbermek (swell up), зismek (swell), зiюirmek (swell). (various references)

Ukrainian

накачувати (knurl, pump up), надуватися (belly, plim, round, swell), підвищувати (boost, elate, elevate, enhance, heighten, lift, prefer, send up, up). (various references)

sufflabo, sufflantem, sufflatorium, sufflaveris, sufflavit. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "inflate": inflated, inflater, inflaters, inflates. (additional references)

Words ending with "inflate": overinflate, reinflate. (additional references)

Words containing "inflate": hyperinflated, overinflated, overinflates, reinflated, reinflates, underinflated, uninflated. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Inflate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anflate, einfalt, infat, infate, inflait, inflat, inflata, Inflot, Neffati, nilete. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: entail, fetial, finale, tenail, tineal.

-2 letters: alien, aline, anile, elain, elfin, elint, entia, faint, feint, fetal, filet, final, flint, flite, inlet, laten, leant, liane, telia, tenia, tinea.

-3 letters: alef, alif, alit, anil, ante, anti, elan, etna, fail, fain, fane, fate, feal, feat, felt, feta, fiat, fila, file, fine, flan, flat, flea, flit, ilea.

+1 letter: antileft, antilife, filament, flatline, inflated, inflater, inflates.

+2 letters: defiantly, deflating, deflation, defoliant, faltering, fellating, fellation, filaments, flatlined, flatliner, flatlines, flauntier, fulminate, infantile, inflaters, reflating, reflation, reinflate, ultrafine.

+3 letters: antifemale, defaulting, deflations, defoliants, faultiness, fellations, finalities, flatliners, flattening, flattering, flauntiest, fluorinate, fulminated, fulminates, infibulate, infiltrate, inflatable, insufflate, leafleting, maleficent, manifestly, notifiable, reflations, refloating, reinflated, reinflates, unifoliate, uninflated.