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 This has combined to make Finals tickets at the Garden even scarcer, inflating prices on the secondary market. —

Matt Egan, CNN Money, 3 June 2026 Didn’t the Knicks completely turn the tables on his score-inflating strategy? —

Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 May 2026 The complaint alleges the city is unlawfully inflating the assessed value, and taxes, of commercial properties that file abatements. —

Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 26 May 2026 That last point separates Hyperliquid from a long list of earlier crypto projects, which manufactured the appearance of activity by paying users in their own inflating token. —

Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026 Maddox Gallery, which has spaces in London and Dubai, has been accused of inflating the value of artworks used as collateral for loans. —

George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 19 May 2026 Both actors mimed inflating like balloons. —

Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 18 May 2026 In Ohio and Texas, operators were caught billing for care provided to dead patients, inflating services and forging physician signatures to fabricate records when auditors sought proof. —

Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2026 From his earliest days as an agent, Meredith proudly flouted industry convention while inflating his own reputation and padding his bank account. —

Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026

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Leading up to Election Day, the Democratic share of those later ballots, which often determine the outcome in California, was steadily increasing as liberal-leaning voters began to make their choice.

— Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 5 June 2026
At that time, Musk accused the FTC of aggressively increasing the number of investigative demands.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 4 June 2026