as in swollen
enlarged beyond normal from internal pressure
an overinflated balloon will burst
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Recent Examples of overinflated
As played with bravado by Macfadyen, the unhinged Guiteau comes across as a stop-at-nothing opportunist consumed by his overinflated vision of his own significance and purpose.
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Randy Myers, Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2025
The fact that everyone is constantly apologizing to Solène doesn’t help her overinflated ego.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2025
Randy Myers, Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2025
The fact that everyone is constantly apologizing to Solène doesn’t help her overinflated ego.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overinflated
swollen
Adjective
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Our own Metropolitan Museum displays a copy of that swollen right-hand — cast in bronze for Saint-Gaudens in the 1880s.—
Harold Holzer,
New York Daily News,
8 Feb. 2026
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His face was also red and swollen.—
Erika Stanish,
CBS News,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Overinflated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overinflated. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.
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