: 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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Unai Emery relies on a tight core rather than a bloated squad.
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Sukhman Singh, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2025
Would the college football map look so unbalanced, so bloated, if UCLA and USC had stayed put in the first place?
—Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 23 Dec. 2025
The stomach feels bloated and unsettled, while the skin appears puffy, dull, or broken out.
—Mélanie Nauche, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2025
Falling prices reduce corporate profits, further increasing the true economic cost of maintaining bloated industrial capacity.
—Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
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Sukhman Singh, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2025
Would the college football map look so unbalanced, so bloated, if UCLA and USC had stayed put in the first place?
—Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 23 Dec. 2025
The stomach feels bloated and unsettled, while the skin appears puffy, dull, or broken out.
—Mélanie Nauche, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2025
Falling prices reduce corporate profits, further increasing the true economic cost of maintaining bloated industrial capacity.
—Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
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 30 Dec. 2025.
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