: 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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Equally significant will be the chorus of deficit hawks who insist the only way to remedy a bloated federal government is to restructure entitlement programs at risk of collapse in 10 years.
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Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 23 Jan. 2025
My stomach felt less bloated, and there was a noticeable ease in my body’s tension.
—Tira Urquhart, Essence, 17 Jan. 2025
Far too many times, these implementations become redundant and bloated.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
But Good Girl, an ambitious, often beautiful, yet bloated debut set against the backdrop of Germany’s growing anti-immigrant sentiment, wrestles with the knot of Nila’s self-loathing without ever quite undoing it.
—Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
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Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 23 Jan. 2025
My stomach felt less bloated, and there was a noticeable ease in my body’s tension.
—Tira Urquhart, Essence, 17 Jan. 2025
Far too many times, these implementations become redundant and bloated.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
But Good Girl, an ambitious, often beautiful, yet bloated debut set against the backdrop of Germany’s growing anti-immigrant sentiment, wrestles with the knot of Nila’s self-loathing without ever quite undoing it.
—Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
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“Bloated.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bloated. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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