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BLOAT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of domestic animals caused by excessive gas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("bloat" is a kind of...):

lump; puffiness; swelling (an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement)

Derivation:

bloat (become bloated or swollen or puff up)

bloat (make bloated or swollen)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become bloated or swollen or puff up

Example:

The dead man's stomach was bloated

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "bloat" is one way to...):

intumesce; swell; swell up; tumefy; tumesce (expand abnormally)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence example:

Did his feet bloat?

Derivation:

bloat (swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of domestic animals caused by excessive gas)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make bloated or swollen

Example:

Hunger bloated the child's belly

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "bloat" is one way to...):

swell (cause to become swollen)

Cause:

bloat (become bloated or swollen or puff up)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bloat"):

distend (cause to expand as it by internal pressure)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

bloat (swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of domestic animals caused by excessive gas)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Symptoms include abdominal marked discomfort, bloating and diarrhea.

(Malabsorption syndrome, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

Patients present with symptoms of malabsorption syndrome, abdominal discomfort, and bloating.

(Pancreatic Insufficiency, NCI Thesaurus)

Boy as I was, I knew that, in spite of that bloated face, this woman had once been very beautiful.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Symptoms include abdominal pain, bloating, and diarrhea.

(Malabsorption syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

A group of symptoms such as gas, bloating, abdominal pain, and diarrhea resulting from the body's inability to properly absorb nutrients.

(Malabsorption syndrome, NCI Dictionary)

It prevents gas, diarrhea, and bloating caused by consumption from dairy foods in people that lack the natural lactase enzyme.

(Lactase, NCI Thesaurus)

Clinical signs include abdominal cramping, bloating, flatulence and diarrhea following the dietary intake of lactose.

(Lactose Intolerance, NCI Thesaurus)

I recognised well that purple face,—those bloated features.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Increasing dietary fiber too quickly can lead to gas, bloating, and cramps.

(Dietary Fiber, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Though no more than several times the mass of Earth, their hydrogen/helium atmospheres are so bloated they are nearly the size of Jupiter.

('Cotton Candy' Planet Mysteries Unravel in New Hubble Observations, NASA)