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Inflated   /ɪnflˈeɪtəd/  /ɪnflˈeɪtɪd/   Listen
Inflated

adjective
1.
Enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness.  Synonym: hyperbolic.
2.
Pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals).  Synonyms: high-flown, high-sounding.  "A high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution"



Inflate

verb
(past & past part. inflated; pres. part. inflating)
1.
Exaggerate or make bigger.  Synonyms: amplify, blow up, expand.
2.
Fill with gas or air.  Synonym: blow up.
3.
Cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit.
4.
Increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value.
5.
Become inflated.  Synonyms: balloon, billow.



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"Inflated" Quotes from Famous Books



... to depend on it are really due to a portion of the lung more or less extensive never having been called into proper activity. I may add that we shall hereafter have to notice a similar condition of the lung—its collapse after having once been inflated—as occurring sometimes in the course of real inflammation of the organs of respiration in early life, and forming a very serious complication of the ...
— The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases • Charles West, M.D.

... assigned to an epoch remarkable for the severity and precision of its taste? If Spain is meant, the attack is perfectly intelligible, as the epoch is exactly that when Spanish taste began to degenerate, and the style of Spanish writers to become vicious, inflated, and fantastic, in imitation of Gongora, who did so much to ruin the literature of his country; as other writers of much less ability, but who addressed themselves to a public far inferior in point of taste to that of Gongora, have recently done in England. Nothing could be worse ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 • Various

... of a school. His poetic and inflated style long imposed itself upon all subjects, and hindered the natural development of Hebrew prose, ...
— The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) • Nahum Slouschz

... bringing his two forefingers close to the top of his nose, rubbed them over one another, cross-wise, in derision, defiance, and contempt of Straudenheim. Although Straudenheim could not possibly be supposed to be conscious of this strange proceeding, it so inflated and comforted the little warrior's soul, that twice he went away, and twice came back into the court to repeat it, as though it must goad his enemy to madness. Not only that, but he afterwards came back with two other small warriors, and they all three did it together. Not only that—as ...
— The Uncommercial Traveller • Charles Dickens

... whole five-foot shelf of remembrances of her first New York love-affair with the lame waiter in the bakery. All her good fortune had been set in motion by poor, old, shabby "Skip." She had soared away like some rainbow-hued bubble gently releasing itself from the day pipe that inflated it out of the suds ...
— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes


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