: 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
Examples of bloated in a Sentence
I felt bloated from eating too much.
a bloated sense of his own importance
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Why Leaner Processes Matter Just as extra weight in a triathlon increases drag and reduces efficiency, companies burdened with bloated processes, redundant operations or inefficient systems risk slowing their growth.
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Oscar Chavez-Arrieta, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
The subtext was that the family are too nice to do what Ratcliffe thinks needs to be done — namely, take a chainsaw to a bloated workforce.
—Simon Hughes, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025
Yet its core aim, slashing wasteful spending and forcing accountability on a bloated bureaucracy, is a goal no serious leader can ignore.
California, with its $322 billion budget and perennial fiscal crises, desperately needs a similar reckoning.
—Zac Townsend, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2025
But for a movie about stinking, bloated corpses, on the whole, this one is surprisingly fresh.
—Katie Rife, IndieWire, 11 Mar. 2025
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Oscar Chavez-Arrieta, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
The subtext was that the family are too nice to do what Ratcliffe thinks needs to be done — namely, take a chainsaw to a bloated workforce.
—Simon Hughes, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025
Yet its core aim, slashing wasteful spending and forcing accountability on a bloated bureaucracy, is a goal no serious leader can ignore.
California, with its $322 billion budget and perennial fiscal crises, desperately needs a similar reckoning.
—Zac Townsend, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2025
But for a movie about stinking, bloated corpses, on the whole, this one is surprisingly fresh.
—Katie Rife, IndieWire, 11 Mar. 2025
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“Bloated.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bloated. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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