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balloon

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of balloon

1 to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number

the number of students who stay home sick balloons every winter

Synonyms of balloon

accelerate, accumulate, appreciate, boom, build up, burgeon (also bourgeon), climb, enlarge, escalate, expand, gain, increase, mount, multiply, mushroom, proliferate, rise, roll up, snowball, spread, swell, wax

Words Related to balloon

jump, rocket, skyrocket, surge

heighten, intensify, redouble

blow up, bulk, distend, inflate, puff (up)

crescendo, crest, peak

Antonyms of balloon

contract, decrease, diminish, dwindle, lessen, recede, wane

2 to extend outward beyond a usual point

the paper bag ballooned and blew away as the wind lifted it skyward

Synonyms of balloon

bag, beetle, belly, billow, bulge, bunch, jut, overhang, poke, pooch [chiefly dialect], pouch, pout, project, protrude, stand out, start, stick out, swell

Words Related to balloon

blow up, inflate

dilate, distend, expand

mushroom, snowball

elongate, extend, lengthen, stretch

Near Antonyms of balloon

compress, condense, constrict, contract, shrink

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