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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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Come 1953, this legal prodigy was named McCarthy’s boy-wonder chief counsel, and the news photos told the tale: the sharp-faced, heavy-lidded 26-year-old with cherubic cheeks, whispering intimately into the ear of the bloated McCarthy.
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Too much of that debt was tied up in high-risk mortgages made in a bloated housing sector.
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With a bloated payroll and nothing to offer free agents beyond salary-cap exceptions, the Pistons could look to unload players via trade.
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Come 1953, this legal prodigy was named McCarthy’s boy-wonder chief counsel, and the news photos told the tale: the sharp-faced, heavy-lidded 26-year-old with cherubic cheeks, whispering intimately into the ear of the bloated McCarthy.
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Republicans and conservative Democrats have been calling for years for a 401(k) plan, saying that state employee pensions are bloated and allow some retirees to receive more than $100,000 a year.
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Such projects ran the risk of seeming bloated and self-conscious in the hands of lesser talent, but Townshend bested himself with Quadrophenia, an unflinching look back at the mid-’60s Mod scene in which the band had come of age.
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Answer: His provocative procedural of bloated privilege, Welcome to New York, an inside look at the arrest of a French politician and international big cheese, Devereaux (Gérard Depardieu), for the rape of a hotel maid in Manhattan.
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Also, Portland is going to have to figure out how to dump the bloated salaries Olshey foolishly took on last summer.
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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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