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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



... most of them the great thing in music—so he declared—was the volume of sound, just a musical noise. The pleasure of singing so potent in Germany was in some sort a pleasure of vocal gymnastics. It was just a matter of being inflated with air and then letting it go vigorously, powerfully, for a long time together and rhythmically.—And by way of compliment he accorded a certain great singer a certificate of good health. He was not content with flaying the artists. He strode over the ...
— Jean-Christophe, Vol. I • Romain Rolland
... other fellow, you know, I forget his name— ever put pen to—why, your mother is herself a poem! neatly made up, rounded off at the corners, French-polished and all shipshape. Ha! you needn't go an' shelter yourself under her wings, wi' your inflated, up in the clouds, reef-point patterin', ...
— Blown to Bits - The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago • R.M. Ballantyne
... lifeboat," Dick answered. One of those useful craft was aboard the airship. It could be inflated with air, and would sustain a ...
— Dick Hamilton's Airship - or, A Young Millionaire in the Clouds • Howard R. Garis
... I inflated a rubber balloon and set it adrift. The idea was that in free fall the balloon would drift slowly in the direction of the leak. This was the first thing I did after I had discovered the trouble. I mean it was the first ...
— Last Resort • Stephen Bartholomew
... the police came, much inflated with the dignity of so great a capture, and took down our statement. 'Do you give yourself in charge on a confession of forgery?' the superintendent asked, ...
— Miss Cayley's Adventures • Grant Allen


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