: 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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The floor system continues, the payments to banks continue, as does the Fed’s bloated balance sheet.
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Dave Birnbaum, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
But the White House says the old National Security Council structures were too bloated and are ultimately unsuited for how this administration does business.
—Franco Ordoñez, NPR, 26 Jan. 2026
This causes the atmosphere of each world to expand and become bloated — so bloated, in fact, that the planets only have a loose grip on their atmosphere.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 20 Jan. 2026
Further, as Villaraigosa framed it, the conversation should not be on how to squeeze the marginal dollar from billionaires, but rather the state’s overreliance on tax revenues from the ultra-wealthy and seeming inability to slow an increasingly bloated budget.
—Douglas Schoen, Oc Register, 15 Jan. 2026
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Dave Birnbaum, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
But the White House says the old National Security Council structures were too bloated and are ultimately unsuited for how this administration does business.
—Franco Ordoñez, NPR, 26 Jan. 2026
This causes the atmosphere of each world to expand and become bloated — so bloated, in fact, that the planets only have a loose grip on their atmosphere.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 20 Jan. 2026
Further, as Villaraigosa framed it, the conversation should not be on how to squeeze the marginal dollar from billionaires, but rather the state’s overreliance on tax revenues from the ultra-wealthy and seeming inability to slow an increasingly bloated budget.
—Douglas Schoen, Oc Register, 15 Jan. 2026
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“Bloated.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bloated. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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