: overfilled and extended with liquid, gas, food, etc.
felt bloated from eating too much
a bloated body
—often used figuratively to describe something as having grown excessively largea bloated budget
a bloated bureaucracy
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I felt bloated from eating too much.
a bloated sense of his own importance
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The ‘bomb squad’ and what seemed to be, on paper, a bloated squad, sparked more negative headlines.
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Simon Johnson and Liam Twomey, The Athletic, 13 Dec. 2024
So the winners, chosen from a bloated set of nominees, will have a prime-time moment to shine and promote their films, which isn’t nothing as movies for grown-ups are still facing an uphill climb at the box office.
—Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
Those were the days when there were still things like mainstream terrestrial radio, bloated video budgets, and creativity at both the regional and the global levels.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 10 Dec. 2024
The colorful, outspoken, free-market economist and television personality excoriated the political establishment, while vowing to take a chainsaw to a bloated government, obscene levels of spending and high taxes and to replace the near-worthless peso with the U.S. dollar.
—Steve Forbes, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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Simon Johnson and Liam Twomey, The Athletic, 13 Dec. 2024
So the winners, chosen from a bloated set of nominees, will have a prime-time moment to shine and promote their films, which isn’t nothing as movies for grown-ups are still facing an uphill climb at the box office.
—Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
Those were the days when there were still things like mainstream terrestrial radio, bloated video budgets, and creativity at both the regional and the global levels.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 10 Dec. 2024
The colorful, outspoken, free-market economist and television personality excoriated the political establishment, while vowing to take a chainsaw to a bloated government, obscene levels of spending and high taxes and to replace the near-worthless peso with the U.S. dollar.
—Steve Forbes, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Bloated.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bloated. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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