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verb

Inflate v. t. (past & past part. inflated; pres. part. inflating)

To swell or distend with air or gas; to dilate; to expand; to enlarge; as, to inflate a bladder; to inflate the lungs. "When passion's tumults in the bosom rise, Inflate the features, and enrage the eyes."

Fig.: To swell; to puff up; to elate; as, to inflate one with pride or vanity. "Inflate themselves with some insane delight."

To cause to become unduly expanded or increased; as, to inflate the currency.

Inflate v. i. To expand; to fill; to distend.

adjective

Inflate adj. Blown in; inflated.

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Etymology of 'Inflate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inflate" Quotes from Famous Books

... themselves, and consider them as constituting a more essential difference between us than they really do. The qualities of the mind do, in reality, establish the truest superiority over one another: yet should not these so far elevate our pride as to inflate us with contempt, and make us look down on our fellow-creatures as on animals of an inferior order; but that the fortuitous accident of birth, the acquisition of wealth, with some outward ornaments of dress, should ...

— Miscellanies, Volume 2 (from Works, Volume 12) • Henry Fielding

... said the things about that there wine being able to inflate the casualty lists, even of Polish weddings, which are already the highest known to the society page of our police-court records. She said, further, that she had took just enough of the stuff at dinner to ...

— Ma Pettengill • Harry Leon Wilson

... amongst them flinched; he only drew his breath hard as if trying to inflate his chest to the utmost with courage, and then at the word every other lad fired low, sending a hail of bullets to meet the rushing force when it was about a couple of hundred ...

— Fix Bay'nets - The Regiment in the Hills • George Manville Fenn

... up with military rigidity, close his mouth and inflate his cheeks, momentarily expecting two blows, delivered simultaneously by both hands, to expel the air from the ruddy globe of his face. At other times these redoubtable personages tested the strength of their arms upon Magdalena's pate, which was bare ...

— Luna Benamor • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... thus fixed, the next question is as to the method of collecting it. In the first place there is no intention of allowing the Germans to pay in actual cash. If they do this they will merely inflate the English beyond what is bearable. England has been inflated now for eight years and ...

— My Discovery of England • Stephen Leacock

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