INFLATING Synonyms: 105 Similar and Opposite Words

inflating

verb

present participle of inflate

as in increasing

to make greater in size, amount, or number Check that you have inflated your tires to the recommended pressure. Some sellers were inflating their prices by as much as 500 per cent.

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as in accelerating

to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number Airbags are designed to inflate automatically on impact.

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Recent Examples of inflating Finally, three pilot chutes will pull out Orion's three 116-foot-wide main chutes, which will begin inflating at an altitude of about 6,000 feet. —

Miles Doran, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026 Police Chief Lisa Davis said the previous system also captured lower-level interactions — such as wrist manipulation to gain compliance — as standalone force incidents, inflating totals compared with other departments. —

Austin Sanders, Austin American Statesman, 8 Apr. 2026 The Moon — unlike Mars — does not have an atmosphere to supply carbon dioxide for growing algae, so the house-inflating fungi might have to be fed sawdust from Earth. —

Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026 That is propaganda, not just pushed by the groups who agitated for this specific war but also sewn by the massive war machine in DC that’s spent decades inflating threats to justify its continued existence. —

Connor Okeeffe, Oc Register, 29 Mar. 2026 The former employee said the rapper systematically underpaid him, committing tax fraud in the process by inflating his wages in reports to the IRS. —

Edward Segarra, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026 By inflating microplastic counts in this size range, using laboratory gloves may jeopardize the studies that inform future policies and regulations. —

Anne McNeil, The Conversation, 26 Mar. 2026 The city was sued in December by a watchdog group that alleges the city has been inflating the assessed value and taxes of commercial properties that file abatements, a practice the group has slammed as retaliatory and unlawful. —

Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 23 Mar. 2026 Perhaps dreaming of warmer weather, multiple House lawmakers were seen at their desks Wednesday inflating beach balls patterned with the Iowa state flag. —

Stephen Gruber-Miller, Des Moines Register, 19 Mar. 2026

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South Korea is increasing generation at its nuclear plants and speeding up maintenance at five offline reactors, with restarts planned in May.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026
Bolivia is low on cash after making more than $500 million in debt payments last month, increasing the urgency of reaching a deal with the International Monetary Fund.

— Sergio Mendoza, Bloomberg, 16 Apr. 2026