inflate
Etymology
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Etymology
From
inflate (inflates, present participle inflating; simple past and past participle inflated)
- (transitive) To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally
- You inflate a balloon by blowing air into it.
- 1782, John Scott of Amwell, An Essay on Painting:
- When passion's tumults in the bosom rise, / Inflate the features, and enrage the eyes.
- (intransitive) To enlarge by filling with air (or a gas).
- The balloon will inflate if you blow into it.
- (figurative) To swell; to puff up.
- to inflate somebody with pride or vanity
- 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC ↗, page 137 ↗:
- [I]f they find / Some stain or blemish in a name of note, / Not grieving that their greatest are so small, / Inflate themselves with some insane delight, / And judge all nature from her feet of clay, […]
- (transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously deflated.
- (figurative, transitive) To represent something as being more important, better, or worse than it actually is; to exaggerate.
- Israel routinely claims that the Gaza Ministry of Health, which is run by Hamas, has a tendency to inflate the number of Palestinian casualties in the Gaza Strip.
- French: gonfler, enfler
- German: aufblasen, aufpumpen, aufblähen
- Italian: enfiare
- Portuguese: inchar, inflar
- Russian: надува́ть
- Spanish: inflar, hinchar
- French: se gonfler, gonfler
- Russian: надува́ться
- Spanish: descomprimir, desempaquetar
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