inflate
English
Verb
inflate (third-person singular simple present inflates, present participle inflating, simple past and past participle inflated)
- (transitive) To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally
- You inflate a balloon by blowing air into it.
- 1782, John Scott of Amwell, An Essay on Painting:
- When passion's tumults in the bosom rise, / Inflate the features, and enrage the eyes.
- (intransitive) To enlarge by filling with air (or a gas).
- The balloon will inflate if you blow into it.
- (figurative) To swell; to puff up.
- to inflate somebody with pride or vanity
- 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 137:
- [I]f they find / Some stain or blemish in a name of note, / Not grieving that their greatest are so small, / Inflate themselves with some insane delight, / And judge all nature from her feet of clay, […]
- (transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously deflated.
- (figurative, transitive) To misrepresent something as being more important, better, or worse than it actually is; to exaggerate.
- Israel routinely claims that the Gaza Ministry of Health, which is run by Hamas, has a tendency to inflate the number of Palestinian casualties in the Gaza Strip.
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Translations
(transitive) to enlarge the volume occupied by an object
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(transitive) to enlarge by filling with gas
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(intransitive) to become enlarged by being filled with gas
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to decompress data
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Latin
References
- “inflate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “inflate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- inflate in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- inflate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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