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bloated

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bloat·ed  (bltd)
adj.
1. Much bigger than desired: a bloated bureaucracy; a bloated budget.
2. Medicine Swollen or distended beyond normal size by fluid or gaseous material.

bloated [ˈbləʊtɪd]
adj
1. swollen, as with a liquid, air, or wind
2. puffed up, as with conceit
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bloated
adjective
2. too full, stuffed (informal), blown up, swollen up, uncomfortably full Diners do not want to leave the table feeling bloated.
Translations
bloated [ˈbləʊtɪd] ADJ
1. (= swollen) [stomach] → hinchado; [face] → hinchado, abotargado
to feel bloatedsentirse hinchado
2. (fig) [bureaucracy] → excesivo; [budget, ego] → inflado
bloated with pridehenchido de orgullo
bloated [ˈbləʊtɪd] adj [face] → bouffi(e); [stomach, body] → gonflé(e)
to feel bloated → se sentir ballonné(e)
bloated
adj
aufgedunsen; I feel absolutely bloated (inf)ich bin zum Platzen voll (inf)
(fig, with pride, self-importance) → aufgeblasen (→ with vor +dat)
bloated [ˈbləʊtɪd] adj (also) (fig) bloated (with)gonfio/a (di)
bloated [ˈbləʊtɪd] adj (also) (fig) bloated (with)gonfio/a (di)


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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.
There was a mocking smile on the bloated face which seemed to drive me mad.
Is it a millionaire from the other side, trying to make records, or a member of our bloated aristocracy?
 
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