Definition of bloated
: 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 large a 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
Recent Examples of bloated from the Web
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Toronto introduced its own foreign buyer tax this year and the International Monetary Fund said this week more could be done to prevent a dangerous unwinding of prices amid bloated consumer debt levels.
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A new president could challenge the position of several elites who maintain corrupt fiefdoms that span a bloated public sector and military.
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The Trump budget provides Congress with a good starting point to take a scalpel to the bloated federal welfare state.
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The gang's all here in this somewhat bloated, self-serious sequel, but the irreverent energy of the original is in short supply. 2 hrs.
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Without Lennon, McCartney’s concept would’ve sounded bloated and saccharine.
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Mace argues that the PC industry is bloated and stagnant because Apple failed to compete with Microsoft.
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First Known Use of bloated
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BLOATED Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of bloated for English Language Learners
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: very swollen : too full of liquid, gas, food, etc.
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