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bloat·ed

(blō′tĭd)

adj.

1. Much larger than is normal or desirable: a bloated bureaucracy; a bloated ego.

2. Immoderately wealthy: A bloated plutocrat.

3. Medicine Swollen or distended beyond normal size by fluid or gaseous material.

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bloated

(ˈbləʊtɪd)

adj

1. swollen, as with a liquid, air, or wind

2. puffed up, as with conceit

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bloat•ed

(ˈbloʊ tɪd)

adj.

1. puffed up.

2. conceited.

[1655–65]

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bloated

adjective

1. puffed up, swollen, blown-up, enlarged, inflated, puffy, dilated, distended, turgid, tumescent, tumid His face was bloated.
puffed up contracted, wrinkled, withered, deflated, shrivelled, shrunken, flaccid

2. too full, stuffed (informal), blown up, swollen up, uncomfortably full Diners do not want to leave the table feeling bloated.

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Translations

gonfio

bloated

[ˈbləʊtɪd] ADJ

1. (= swollen) [stomach] → hinchado; [face] → hinchado, abotargado
to feel bloated → sentirse hinchado

2. (fig) [bureaucracy] → excesivo; [budget, ego] → inflado
bloated with pride → henchido de orgullo

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bloated

[ˈbləʊtɪd] adj [face] → bouffi(e); [stomach, body] → gonflé(e)
to feel bloated → se sentir ballonné(e)

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

bloated

adj

→ aufgedunsen; I feel absolutely bloated (inf) → ich bin zum Platzen voll (inf)

(fig, with pride, self-importance) → aufgeblasen (→ with vor +dat)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

bloated

[ˈbləʊtɪd] adj (also) (fig) bloated (with) → gonfio/a (di)

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

bloated

a. distendido-a, aventado-a, hinchado-a, inflado-a.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

bloated

adj distendido, hinchado; to feel — sentirse hinchado, hincharse(le) (a uno) el estómago

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I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgment, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate-de-foie-gras.

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Yet I do my part to save him still: I give him to understand that drinking makes his eyes dull, and his face red and bloated; and that it tends to render him imbecile in body and mind; and if Annabella were to see him as often as I do, she would speedily be disenchanted; and that she certainly will withdraw her favour from him, if he continues such courses.

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A person putting a glass to his eyes, could even recognise further a small envious countenance, and also that a bloated soullet dangled at the stalk.

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Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood.

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While we were comforting ourselves by the fire after our meal, the Jack - who was sitting in a corner, and who had a bloated pair of shoes on, which he had exhibited while we were eating our eggs and bacon, as interesting relics that he had taken a few days ago from the feet of a drowned seaman washed ashore - asked me if we had seen a four-oared galley going up with the tide?

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When, in the gathering dark- ness, he could no longer see the purple, bloated face and the burning eyes, a curious fancy came to him.

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War, the red animal, war, the blood-swollen god, would have bloated fill.

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And this was clearly the case; for the thing was a drowned and bloated corpse.

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In order to confine the dignity of Hadji to gentlemen of patrician blood and possessions, the Emperor decreed that no man should make the pilgrimage save bloated aristocrats who were worth a hundred dollars in specie.

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The old men, dim-eyed, toothless, bald, sallow, and bloated, or gaunt and wrinkled, were especially striking.