: overfilled and extended with liquid, gas, food, etc.
felt bloated from eating too much
a bloated body
—often used figuratively to describe something as having grown excessively largea bloated budget
a bloated bureaucracy
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Examples of bloated in a Sentence
I felt bloated from eating too much.
a bloated sense of his own importance
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The result is a bloated list of nominees that often reads like a list of trying to please everyone, which effectively dilutes the merits of the big nominees.
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Leila Cobo, Billboard, 17 Apr. 2024
Hubert points out that bloated code offers giant attack surfaces for bad actors.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Apr. 2024
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Leila Cobo, Billboard, 17 Apr. 2024
Hubert points out that bloated code offers giant attack surfaces for bad actors.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Apr. 2024
See all Example Sentences for bloated
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“Bloated.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bloated. Accessed 5 May. 2024.
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