: 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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John Beifuss, USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
The major indexes fell on Tuesday, led largely by an 8% decline in Palantir and artificial intelligence stocks as investors worried about many of these tech companies’ bloated valuations.
—Julie Coleman, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2025
The authority is the perfect example of a bloated government bureaucracy.
—U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2025
Or the sky, a bit bloated, lets one off.
—Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
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“Bloated.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bloated. Accessed 21 Nov. 2025.
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