: 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
Examples of bloated in a Sentence
I felt bloated from eating too much.
a bloated sense of his own importance
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In a market already flooded with general-purpose AI pitches and bloated burn rates, the future may belong to companies that stay small, move fast and go deep rather than wide.
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Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
After the fact, states can sometimes nibble away at specific excesses, but their bloated constitutional powers and their abuses of those powers help spawn the crises in the first place.
—Joel Thayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 May 2025
Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins told senators Tuesday that downsizing the VA workforce is essential to reforming a bloated system, despite bipartisan concerns that the plan lacks transparency and could jeopardize care for veterans.
—Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 6 May 2025
Rick Spinrad, former NOAA administrator under then-President Joe Biden, said the weather service was not a bloated target for budgetary cuts.
—Evan Bush, NBC news, 6 May 2025
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Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
After the fact, states can sometimes nibble away at specific excesses, but their bloated constitutional powers and their abuses of those powers help spawn the crises in the first place.
—Joel Thayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 May 2025
Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins told senators Tuesday that downsizing the VA workforce is essential to reforming a bloated system, despite bipartisan concerns that the plan lacks transparency and could jeopardize care for veterans.
—Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 6 May 2025
Rick Spinrad, former NOAA administrator under then-President Joe Biden, said the weather service was not a bloated target for budgetary cuts.
—Evan Bush, NBC news, 6 May 2025
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“Bloated.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bloated. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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