: 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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Periodic maintenance like changing desiccant packs or swapping bloated cells would likely still remain vital.
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Harry Law, Time, 5 June 2025
Didn’t hear of any sightings of President Trump or his minions in Springfield last week, twisting arms to vote for the bloated state budget.
—Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2025
Those included both the beleaguered, bloated Mars Sample Return (MSR) program and the on-time, on-budget Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, the next astrophysics flagship mission.
—Nadia Drake, Scientific American, 3 June 2025
But Republicans had a sharply different view, blasting the budget as a bloated document that did not closely follow the fiscal guardrails that were adopted in 2017 by the legislature and have been credited with restoring the state’s fiscal health in recent years.
—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 2 June 2025
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Harry Law, Time, 5 June 2025
Didn’t hear of any sightings of President Trump or his minions in Springfield last week, twisting arms to vote for the bloated state budget.
—Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2025
Those included both the beleaguered, bloated Mars Sample Return (MSR) program and the on-time, on-budget Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, the next astrophysics flagship mission.
—Nadia Drake, Scientific American, 3 June 2025
But Republicans had a sharply different view, blasting the budget as a bloated document that did not closely follow the fiscal guardrails that were adopted in 2017 by the legislature and have been credited with restoring the state’s fiscal health in recent years.
—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 2 June 2025
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“Bloated.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bloated. Accessed 21 Jun. 2025.
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