Definition of inflate in English:

inflate

verb ɪnˈfleɪtɪnˈfleɪt

1usually with object Fill (a balloon, tyre, or other expandable structure) with air or gas so that it becomes distended.
给（气球、轮胎等可扩张物）充气
never use an air line on a garage forecourt to inflate your tyres
Example sentencesExamples
- I am now ready to go - upon my opening my pack of balloons and inflating one, a knot is tied in the end to keep it inflated.
- If the balloon stays partially inflated, it can act as a sail and drag Fossett's closet-sized capsule for miles.
- On his bicycle, fitted with a luggage box and a carrier, Gokul is taking with him, a kit bag and of course a vacuum pump to inflate the cycle tyres whenever necessary.
- Our piece de resistance was a helium tank to inflate Labour Party balloons.
- At launch, the balloon is partially inflated with helium and expands as it rises.
- They're the kind of balloons which when inflated are shaped like round pillows.
- The tube contains a balloon which is inflated, blocking the windpipe.
- At first I was just vaguely uneasy, because I knew that an office (especially one this size) is not the right place for a hot air balloon to be inflated.
- Keeping your tyres inflated at the correct pressure is vital for your health and that of your wallet, as tyres run at the wrong pressure wear prematurely.
- A few pebbles from my drive in a party balloon partially inflated with water served the purpose.
- I arrived at the field by 6.15 a.m. to behold the magnificent sight of the massive balloon half inflated.
- The balloons inflate the network, putting the string under tension while the string holds the balloons in place.
- The balloon is inflated to expand the stent.
- Smaller balloons are then inflated around the main structure, and the process repeated to create mini-igloos for the guests and staff to sleep in.
- We bounced up to 10 feet in the air, catching a glimpse of the mountain peaks and landing on a cushy inflated mattress to spring up in the air again.
- By analogy with the rock and the feather, think of a heavy warhead and a very light balloon that is inflated in the shape of a warhead; they would also travel along together in space.
- Once inside the shelter Snicht hurried around making space for them and inflating three portable mattresses he had.
- It was a feeling when your heart felt inflated like a balloon and your feet urged you to skip.
- Also, keep your tyres correctly inflated and get your wheel alignment checked.
- The object is an inflated balloon placed in the armpit.
Synonyms
blown up, aerated, filled, puffed up, puffed out, pumped up
dilated, distended, stretched, expanded, engorged, enlarged, swollen
1. 1.1no object Become distended with air or gas.
  膨胀，胀大
  the mattress inflated
  Example sentencesExamples
  A cryptic chorus of sound accompanies these series of visions while a swirling and undulating hot air balloon figure slowly inflates under the night sky.
  As the balloon inflates, though, the pressure needed to expand it further decreases dramatically.
  Twelve fully automatic programs for various types of shirts and materials take care of the rest: The shell made of balloon silk literally inflates itself with hot air and gets the shirts into shape.
  As he strained upward, grunting, his entire body seemed to swell, like a balloon inflating.
  About 10 minutes later, small air pockets throughout the mattress begin inflating and deflating to produce a gentle rocking motion.
  If we were to mark a number of equidistant points on the surface of the balloon, then as the balloon inflates the two-dimensional universe expands in the sense that every point on the balloon's surface recedes from every other.
  Then the outside of the lava freezes to form a glassy, vesicle-free skin which inflates like a balloon until the surface is ruptured and a new pillow begins to form.
  Unfortunately the balloon refused to inflate properly and just dragged along on the surface of the sea.
  ‘You can think of a magma chamber as a balloon inflating and deflating,’ says Pritchard.
  There are also carnival games: squirting water into the clown's mouth where the balloon inflates.
  They inflate differently and behave differently, and once blown up, they can't be deflated for storage or re-used.
  Compressed air is blown into an opening and the two sheets inflate.
  When the balloon inflates, the spring-like stent expands and locks into place inside the artery.
  The bigger the balloon inflates, the bigger the explosion when it pops.
  The Dressman's shell, which is made from balloon silk, inflates as it fills with hot air and presses the garment into shape, smoothing out creases and wrinkles.
  Bowl followed bowl until his stomach inflated like a beach balloon and he staggered from the table on the verge of collapse.
  The flower buds are hollow balloons, which gradually inflate and color up.
  Synonyms
  blow up, fill with air, aerate, fill up, puff up, puff out, pump up
  dilate, distend, swell
2usually with object Increase (something) by a large or excessive amount.
使大幅增加，使极度增长
objectives should be clearly set out so as not to duplicate work and inflate costs
必须明确提出目标以避免重复工作和大幅增加成本。
Example sentencesExamples
- Property agencies say this year's festival will see yet another increase in the number of flats on the temporary market, and at increasingly inflated prices.
- And the rising cost of energy is inflating the price of just about everything we purchase.
- A buoyant stock market minimized post retirement pension costs by inflating the value of pension assets.
- Block billing can be a method of burying costs and inflating legal bills.
- But what about those who need housing but cannot afford to buy at greatly inflated prices?
- However, as with exit fees, a growing number of lenders are cottoning on to the fact that inflated charges can increase their profits.
- She told the High Court in Leeds today that such a claim was ‘totally incredible’, and claimed that the costs application was inflated.
- I feel it is totally unacceptable to place this burden on the already overtaxed householders who are facing increasingly inflated council tax bills.
- Comedy production costs are greatly inflated by the price of hype.
- However, maps generated using molecular markers often have greatly inflated lengths compared with those predicted from chiasma counts.
- There was a ‘resistance to creating documents that would prove cost overruns or really inflated charges,’ she said.
- Authorities counted 314 people as still reported missing but said the number was greatly inflated by double reports and the enduring confusion over the identities of the dead.
- The figures were greatly inflated, allowing welfare-bashing cronies to misuse the numbers and misrepresent welfare recipients.
- Many never hear of the good we do, hearing only accounts, and sometimes greatly inflated rumors, of the evil acts perpetrated by others.
- Oh, and I believe corn syrup is less healthy as well, which further inflates health care costs.
- Consequently the Labor vote in the first third of the period is greatly inflated, and this contributes to the trend.
- Consequently, this large size difference greatly inflates the variance in allele size in Europeans.
- They are also concerned not to inflate building costs - which happened in the late 1990s - and to ensure they get value for money.
- The terror of the 1972 games in Munich had inflated insurance and security costs, and the boycott by African nations had deprived the 1976 games of their global legitimacy.
- The company says it could close to $800 million in legal costs and in court inflated payouts by administering compensation via such a scheme.
Synonyms
increase, raise, put up, boost, escalate, step up
informal hike up, jack up, bump up
increased, raised, boosted
high, excessive, sky-high, unreasonable, unwarranted, disproportionate, prohibitive, outrageous, overinflated, exorbitant, extortionate
British over the odds
informal over the top, OTT, steep
1. 2.1 Exaggerate.
  夸张，夸大
  numbers have been grossly inflated by the local press
  Example sentencesExamples
  The assertion that these claims have been shown to be grossly inflated is a little premature in my opinion.
  Others steadfastly maintain that numbers such as those are grossly inflated, and that abduction of children by strangers with bad intent is actually quite rare.
  It would have been better coming from a real victim and not a spoiled rich brat with an inflated opinion of herself as an Anointed Prophet.
  The actual number of enemy dead was grossly inflated in order to make it appear that we were winning.
  But the handicaps for Roberts and Helmar had been grossly inflated, by 14 and 15 strokes.
  It now looks grossly inflated on the theatre stage.
  The figures suggested by Trives are grossly inflated and completely unrealistic having regard to the exigent circumstances.
  Churchill's essay goes to extremes, but like the man in power here, the way to get public opinion aroused is to make inflated statements that hold only a grain of truth.
  Smith said New Zealand fans have had an inflated opinion of their team's powers and that had created pressure on his players.
  This can lead to inflated estimates both of apparent local stratigraphic resolution and the degree of faunal endemism.
  Some folks have said that this is not the only subject area where the EU has an inflated opinion.
  If the claim to ‘reform’ is grossly inflated, the opposing claim to defend ‘free speech’ is even more ludicrous.
  The numbers of complaints may also have been inflated by the hysterical, grossly distorted and inflammatory press coverage of the programme.
  There is no doubt that the issue of fraud has been blown up to inflated proportions by media attention.
  More to the point, who is kidding who when you have to purchase your ticket to finals now grossly inflated in scale via the humiliations of a play-off?
  It's just too bad that the movie mixes its messages with mean spirited spitefulness, an inflated opinion of itself and its views, and a mostly unfunny script.
  He has an inflated opinion of his value to the professional classes.
  But the inflated opinion Woodgate had apparently developed of himself in a rapid rise to fame and fortune seemed to be punctured by the court cases.
  The defeat of the nobles in 1488 probably gave Charles an inflated opinion of his own ability and may well have contributed to his belief that he could be a successful adventurer in northern Italy.
  If he existed at all, and there is some dispute, was probably a local tribal leader whose importance was later inflated to promote religious pride.
  Synonyms
  exaggerate, magnify, pump up, overplay, overstate, dramatize, elaborate, enhance, embellish, touch up, blow up, blow up out of all proportion
  increase, extend, amplify, augment, expand, intensify, swell
  stretch the truth
  informal make a big thing out of
  exaggerated, magnified, aggrandized, unwarranted, immoderate, pumped up, overblown, overripe, overstated, overplayed
3usually with object Bring about inflation of (a currency) or in (an economy)
使（通货）膨胀，使（物价）暴涨
he has inflated the money supply to allow companies to continue in their old ways
Example sentencesExamples
- If a country inflates the currency to pay off its debt, prices will rise so that the dollars or marks or pesos the creditor receives are worth a lot less than the dollars or pesos they originally lent out.
- For it has long been apparent that central bankers everywhere must like inflating the currency, during working hours at any rate.
- Beginning with the War of Independence and continuing through the War on Terror, Americans have chosen to pay for their wars by borrowing money and inflating the currency.
- The assumptions also determine how the earnings of companies in which you invest are inflated or deflated.
- No central bank on earth, not even the Federal Reserve System, can continually inflate its currency and defy market rates of interest without harming both its currency and the economy.
- The markets composed of the citizens who will be taxed or whose currency will be inflated will suffer some combination of a direct drain on available dollars and a latent devaluation of dollars not withdrawn.
- A bullion currency can be inflated, too - but only with great effort and expense - and not by very much.
- If there is one thing the Fed can do, they say, it is inflate the currency.
- As expected, the U.S. government inflated the currency, as governments are prone to do.
- The government will ultimately face the stark reality of raising taxes, cutting spending or inflating the currency to decrease the impact of the debt load.
- The game comes complete with a single central bank, rules restricting lending competition, and the ability to inflate the currency.
- Bankers found this arrangement uncomfortable, since it crimped their ability to make profits - which they did primarily by inflating the currency.
- And while further rate cuts may do more to prod auto sales and housing demand, further inflating the already overheated housing market carries its own risks.
- It is because of this, and despite the constant attempts by central banks to inflate the currency, that prices are continuing to fall for consumer goods.
- When the government spends resources, it must drain them from the private economy through taxation and borrowing, or by inflating the money supply.
- Hence, the central bank may find that despite its attempt to inflate the economy, the money supply will start falling.
- This action would eliminate currency exchange risks and risks attached to purchasing goods from an economy with a hugely inflated currency.
- Rates of return above borrowing costs engendered heightened investment, which would tend to inflate the economy's general price level.
- At present, the State in nearly every country has achieved its major monetary goal: the ability to expand its revenue by inflating the currency at will.
- In this way the currency could be inflated to pay for the war.

Derivatives

inflater

nounɪnˈfleɪtə

As it turned out, the inflator to his dry suit was significantly corroded, likely creating difficulty in dumping air.
Example sentencesExamples
- The addition of seat bags, curtain bags, knee bags and others will add more fabric, inflators, electronics and housings to the market.
- So forget any housing price bubble factor for at least 5 years as an interest rate inflator.
- That leads to our next sure-fire house price inflator - transaction taxes, such as stamp duty.
- Besides looking very different, the principal difference between the two inflators is in how they are put in the ‘ready’ mode.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin inflat- 'blown into', from the verb inflare, from in- 'into' + flare 'to blow'.

The Latin verb flare ‘to blow’ is the base of inflate, which literally means ‘blow into’. Deflate (mid 19th century) is its opposite.

Rhymes

abate, ablate, aerate, ait, await, backdate, bait, bate, berate, castrate, collate, conflate, crate, create, cremate, date, deflate, dictate, dilate, distraite, donate, downstate, eight, elate, equate, estate, fate, fête, fixate, freight, frustrate, gait, gate, gestate, gradate, grate, great, gyrate, hate, hydrate, innate, interrelate, interstate, irate, Kate, Kuwait, lactate, late, locate, lustrate, mandate, mate, migrate, misdate, misstate, mistranslate, mutate, narrate, negate, notate, orate, ornate, Pate, placate, plate, prate, prorate, prostrate, pulsate, pupate, quadrate, rate, rotate, sate, sedate, serrate, short weight, skate, slate, spate, spectate, spruit, stagnate, state, straight, strait, Tate, tête-à-tête, Thwaite, translate, translocate, transmigrate, truncate, underrate, understate, underweight, update, uprate, upstate, up-to-date, vacate, vibrate, wait, weight

Definition of inflate in US English:

inflate

verbinˈflātɪnˈfleɪt

1Fill (a balloon, tire, or other expandable structure) with air or gas so that it becomes distended.
给（气球、轮胎等可扩张物）充气
Example sentencesExamples
- I am now ready to go - upon my opening my pack of balloons and inflating one, a knot is tied in the end to keep it inflated.
- At launch, the balloon is partially inflated with helium and expands as it rises.
- The balloons inflate the network, putting the string under tension while the string holds the balloons in place.
- The object is an inflated balloon placed in the armpit.
- Once inside the shelter Snicht hurried around making space for them and inflating three portable mattresses he had.
- At first I was just vaguely uneasy, because I knew that an office (especially one this size) is not the right place for a hot air balloon to be inflated.
- The tube contains a balloon which is inflated, blocking the windpipe.
- Our piece de resistance was a helium tank to inflate Labour Party balloons.
- By analogy with the rock and the feather, think of a heavy warhead and a very light balloon that is inflated in the shape of a warhead; they would also travel along together in space.
- On his bicycle, fitted with a luggage box and a carrier, Gokul is taking with him, a kit bag and of course a vacuum pump to inflate the cycle tyres whenever necessary.
- They're the kind of balloons which when inflated are shaped like round pillows.
- Also, keep your tyres correctly inflated and get your wheel alignment checked.
- Smaller balloons are then inflated around the main structure, and the process repeated to create mini-igloos for the guests and staff to sleep in.
- A few pebbles from my drive in a party balloon partially inflated with water served the purpose.
- The balloon is inflated to expand the stent.
- Keeping your tyres inflated at the correct pressure is vital for your health and that of your wallet, as tyres run at the wrong pressure wear prematurely.
- I arrived at the field by 6.15 a.m. to behold the magnificent sight of the massive balloon half inflated.
- If the balloon stays partially inflated, it can act as a sail and drag Fossett's closet-sized capsule for miles.
- We bounced up to 10 feet in the air, catching a glimpse of the mountain peaks and landing on a cushy inflated mattress to spring up in the air again.
- It was a feeling when your heart felt inflated like a balloon and your feet urged you to skip.
Synonyms
blown up, aerated, filled, puffed up, puffed out, pumped up
1. 1.1no object Become distended by being filled with air or gas.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The flower buds are hollow balloons, which gradually inflate and color up.
  A cryptic chorus of sound accompanies these series of visions while a swirling and undulating hot air balloon figure slowly inflates under the night sky.
  When the balloon inflates, the spring-like stent expands and locks into place inside the artery.
  As he strained upward, grunting, his entire body seemed to swell, like a balloon inflating.
  As the balloon inflates, though, the pressure needed to expand it further decreases dramatically.
  If we were to mark a number of equidistant points on the surface of the balloon, then as the balloon inflates the two-dimensional universe expands in the sense that every point on the balloon's surface recedes from every other.
  The bigger the balloon inflates, the bigger the explosion when it pops.
  Twelve fully automatic programs for various types of shirts and materials take care of the rest: The shell made of balloon silk literally inflates itself with hot air and gets the shirts into shape.
  They inflate differently and behave differently, and once blown up, they can't be deflated for storage or re-used.
  The Dressman's shell, which is made from balloon silk, inflates as it fills with hot air and presses the garment into shape, smoothing out creases and wrinkles.
  ‘You can think of a magma chamber as a balloon inflating and deflating,’ says Pritchard.
  Bowl followed bowl until his stomach inflated like a beach balloon and he staggered from the table on the verge of collapse.
  About 10 minutes later, small air pockets throughout the mattress begin inflating and deflating to produce a gentle rocking motion.
  Then the outside of the lava freezes to form a glassy, vesicle-free skin which inflates like a balloon until the surface is ruptured and a new pillow begins to form.
  There are also carnival games: squirting water into the clown's mouth where the balloon inflates.
  Compressed air is blown into an opening and the two sheets inflate.
  Unfortunately the balloon refused to inflate properly and just dragged along on the surface of the sea.
  Synonyms
  blow up, fill with air, aerate, fill up, puff up, puff out, pump up
2Increase (something) by a large or excessive amount.
使大幅增加，使极度增长
objectives should be clearly set out so as not to duplicate work and inflate costs
必须明确提出目标以避免重复工作和大幅增加成本。
Example sentencesExamples
- A buoyant stock market minimized post retirement pension costs by inflating the value of pension assets.
- Block billing can be a method of burying costs and inflating legal bills.
- She told the High Court in Leeds today that such a claim was ‘totally incredible’, and claimed that the costs application was inflated.
- And the rising cost of energy is inflating the price of just about everything we purchase.
- The terror of the 1972 games in Munich had inflated insurance and security costs, and the boycott by African nations had deprived the 1976 games of their global legitimacy.
- Property agencies say this year's festival will see yet another increase in the number of flats on the temporary market, and at increasingly inflated prices.
- I feel it is totally unacceptable to place this burden on the already overtaxed householders who are facing increasingly inflated council tax bills.
- Authorities counted 314 people as still reported missing but said the number was greatly inflated by double reports and the enduring confusion over the identities of the dead.
- But what about those who need housing but cannot afford to buy at greatly inflated prices?
- Comedy production costs are greatly inflated by the price of hype.
- However, as with exit fees, a growing number of lenders are cottoning on to the fact that inflated charges can increase their profits.
- Consequently, this large size difference greatly inflates the variance in allele size in Europeans.
- They are also concerned not to inflate building costs - which happened in the late 1990s - and to ensure they get value for money.
- Oh, and I believe corn syrup is less healthy as well, which further inflates health care costs.
- There was a ‘resistance to creating documents that would prove cost overruns or really inflated charges,’ she said.
- However, maps generated using molecular markers often have greatly inflated lengths compared with those predicted from chiasma counts.
- The figures were greatly inflated, allowing welfare-bashing cronies to misuse the numbers and misrepresent welfare recipients.
- Consequently the Labor vote in the first third of the period is greatly inflated, and this contributes to the trend.
- Many never hear of the good we do, hearing only accounts, and sometimes greatly inflated rumors, of the evil acts perpetrated by others.
- The company says it could close to $800 million in legal costs and in court inflated payouts by administering compensation via such a scheme.
Synonyms
increase, raise, put up, boost, escalate, step up
increased, raised, boosted
1. 2.1 Exaggerate.
  夸张，夸大
  numbers have been grossly inflated by the local press
  Example sentencesExamples
  There is no doubt that the issue of fraud has been blown up to inflated proportions by media attention.
  More to the point, who is kidding who when you have to purchase your ticket to finals now grossly inflated in scale via the humiliations of a play-off?
  The numbers of complaints may also have been inflated by the hysterical, grossly distorted and inflammatory press coverage of the programme.
  If he existed at all, and there is some dispute, was probably a local tribal leader whose importance was later inflated to promote religious pride.
  But the inflated opinion Woodgate had apparently developed of himself in a rapid rise to fame and fortune seemed to be punctured by the court cases.
  It now looks grossly inflated on the theatre stage.
  Some folks have said that this is not the only subject area where the EU has an inflated opinion.
  This can lead to inflated estimates both of apparent local stratigraphic resolution and the degree of faunal endemism.
  The figures suggested by Trives are grossly inflated and completely unrealistic having regard to the exigent circumstances.
  Smith said New Zealand fans have had an inflated opinion of their team's powers and that had created pressure on his players.
  He has an inflated opinion of his value to the professional classes.
  The actual number of enemy dead was grossly inflated in order to make it appear that we were winning.
  It's just too bad that the movie mixes its messages with mean spirited spitefulness, an inflated opinion of itself and its views, and a mostly unfunny script.
  It would have been better coming from a real victim and not a spoiled rich brat with an inflated opinion of herself as an Anointed Prophet.
  If the claim to ‘reform’ is grossly inflated, the opposing claim to defend ‘free speech’ is even more ludicrous.
  But the handicaps for Roberts and Helmar had been grossly inflated, by 14 and 15 strokes.
  The defeat of the nobles in 1488 probably gave Charles an inflated opinion of his own ability and may well have contributed to his belief that he could be a successful adventurer in northern Italy.
  The assertion that these claims have been shown to be grossly inflated is a little premature in my opinion.
  Others steadfastly maintain that numbers such as those are grossly inflated, and that abduction of children by strangers with bad intent is actually quite rare.
  Churchill's essay goes to extremes, but like the man in power here, the way to get public opinion aroused is to make inflated statements that hold only a grain of truth.
  Synonyms
  exaggerate, magnify, pump up, overplay, overstate, dramatize, elaborate, enhance, embellish, touch up, blow up, blow up out of all proportion
  exaggerated, magnified, aggrandized, unwarranted, immoderate, pumped up, overblown, overripe, overstated, overplayed
3Bring about inflation of (a currency) or in (an economy).
使（通货）膨胀，使（物价）暴涨
Example sentencesExamples
- The markets composed of the citizens who will be taxed or whose currency will be inflated will suffer some combination of a direct drain on available dollars and a latent devaluation of dollars not withdrawn.
- Hence, the central bank may find that despite its attempt to inflate the economy, the money supply will start falling.
- The government will ultimately face the stark reality of raising taxes, cutting spending or inflating the currency to decrease the impact of the debt load.
- Rates of return above borrowing costs engendered heightened investment, which would tend to inflate the economy's general price level.
- For it has long been apparent that central bankers everywhere must like inflating the currency, during working hours at any rate.
- At present, the State in nearly every country has achieved its major monetary goal: the ability to expand its revenue by inflating the currency at will.
- If a country inflates the currency to pay off its debt, prices will rise so that the dollars or marks or pesos the creditor receives are worth a lot less than the dollars or pesos they originally lent out.
- A bullion currency can be inflated, too - but only with great effort and expense - and not by very much.
- The game comes complete with a single central bank, rules restricting lending competition, and the ability to inflate the currency.
- If there is one thing the Fed can do, they say, it is inflate the currency.
- It is because of this, and despite the constant attempts by central banks to inflate the currency, that prices are continuing to fall for consumer goods.
- The assumptions also determine how the earnings of companies in which you invest are inflated or deflated.
- No central bank on earth, not even the Federal Reserve System, can continually inflate its currency and defy market rates of interest without harming both its currency and the economy.
- This action would eliminate currency exchange risks and risks attached to purchasing goods from an economy with a hugely inflated currency.
- When the government spends resources, it must drain them from the private economy through taxation and borrowing, or by inflating the money supply.
- And while further rate cuts may do more to prod auto sales and housing demand, further inflating the already overheated housing market carries its own risks.
- Bankers found this arrangement uncomfortable, since it crimped their ability to make profits - which they did primarily by inflating the currency.
- In this way the currency could be inflated to pay for the war.
- Beginning with the War of Independence and continuing through the War on Terror, Americans have chosen to pay for their wars by borrowing money and inflating the currency.
- As expected, the U.S. government inflated the currency, as governments are prone to do.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin inflat- ‘blown into’, from the verb inflare, from in- ‘into’ + flare ‘to blow’.

单词	inflate
释义	Definition of inflate in English: inflate verb ɪnˈfleɪtɪnˈfleɪt 1usually with object Fill (a balloon, tyre, or other expandable structure) with air or gas so that it becomes distended. 给（气球、轮胎等可扩张物）充气 never use an air line on a garage forecourt to inflate your tyres Example sentencesExamples I am now ready to go - upon my opening my pack of balloons and inflating one, a knot is tied in the end to keep it inflated. If the balloon stays partially inflated, it can act as a sail and drag Fossett's closet-sized capsule for miles. On his bicycle, fitted with a luggage box and a carrier, Gokul is taking with him, a kit bag and of course a vacuum pump to inflate the cycle tyres whenever necessary. Our piece de resistance was a helium tank to inflate Labour Party balloons. At launch, the balloon is partially inflated with helium and expands as it rises. They're the kind of balloons which when inflated are shaped like round pillows. The tube contains a balloon which is inflated, blocking the windpipe. At first I was just vaguely uneasy, because I knew that an office (especially one this size) is not the right place for a hot air balloon to be inflated. Keeping your tyres inflated at the correct pressure is vital for your health and that of your wallet, as tyres run at the wrong pressure wear prematurely. A few pebbles from my drive in a party balloon partially inflated with water served the purpose. I arrived at the field by 6.15 a.m. to behold the magnificent sight of the massive balloon half inflated. The balloons inflate the network, putting the string under tension while the string holds the balloons in place. The balloon is inflated to expand the stent. Smaller balloons are then inflated around the main structure, and the process repeated to create mini-igloos for the guests and staff to sleep in. We bounced up to 10 feet in the air, catching a glimpse of the mountain peaks and landing on a cushy inflated mattress to spring up in the air again. By analogy with the rock and the feather, think of a heavy warhead and a very light balloon that is inflated in the shape of a warhead; they would also travel along together in space. Once inside the shelter Snicht hurried around making space for them and inflating three portable mattresses he had. It was a feeling when your heart felt inflated like a balloon and your feet urged you to skip. Also, keep your tyres correctly inflated and get your wheel alignment checked. The object is an inflated balloon placed in the armpit. Synonyms blown up, aerated, filled, puffed up, puffed out, pumped up dilated, distended, stretched, expanded, engorged, enlarged, swollen 1.1no object Become distended with air or gas. 膨胀，胀大 the mattress inflated Example sentencesExamples A cryptic chorus of sound accompanies these series of visions while a swirling and undulating hot air balloon figure slowly inflates under the night sky. As the balloon inflates, though, the pressure needed to expand it further decreases dramatically. Twelve fully automatic programs for various types of shirts and materials take care of the rest: The shell made of balloon silk literally inflates itself with hot air and gets the shirts into shape. As he strained upward, grunting, his entire body seemed to swell, like a balloon inflating. About 10 minutes later, small air pockets throughout the mattress begin inflating and deflating to produce a gentle rocking motion. If we were to mark a number of equidistant points on the surface of the balloon, then as the balloon inflates the two-dimensional universe expands in the sense that every point on the balloon's surface recedes from every other. Then the outside of the lava freezes to form a glassy, vesicle-free skin which inflates like a balloon until the surface is ruptured and a new pillow begins to form. Unfortunately the balloon refused to inflate properly and just dragged along on the surface of the sea. ‘You can think of a magma chamber as a balloon inflating and deflating,’ says Pritchard. There are also carnival games: squirting water into the clown's mouth where the balloon inflates. They inflate differently and behave differently, and once blown up, they can't be deflated for storage or re-used. Compressed air is blown into an opening and the two sheets inflate. When the balloon inflates, the spring-like stent expands and locks into place inside the artery. The bigger the balloon inflates, the bigger the explosion when it pops. The Dressman's shell, which is made from balloon silk, inflates as it fills with hot air and presses the garment into shape, smoothing out creases and wrinkles. Bowl followed bowl until his stomach inflated like a beach balloon and he staggered from the table on the verge of collapse. The flower buds are hollow balloons, which gradually inflate and color up. Synonyms blow up, fill with air, aerate, fill up, puff up, puff out, pump up dilate, distend, swell 2usually with object Increase (something) by a large or excessive amount. 使大幅增加，使极度增长 objectives should be clearly set out so as not to duplicate work and inflate costs 必须明确提出目标以避免重复工作和大幅增加成本。 Example sentencesExamples Property agencies say this year's festival will see yet another increase in the number of flats on the temporary market, and at increasingly inflated prices. And the rising cost of energy is inflating the price of just about everything we purchase. A buoyant stock market minimized post retirement pension costs by inflating the value of pension assets. Block billing can be a method of burying costs and inflating legal bills. But what about those who need housing but cannot afford to buy at greatly inflated prices? However, as with exit fees, a growing number of lenders are cottoning on to the fact that inflated charges can increase their profits. She told the High Court in Leeds today that such a claim was ‘totally incredible’, and claimed that the costs application was inflated. I feel it is totally unacceptable to place this burden on the already overtaxed householders who are facing increasingly inflated council tax bills. Comedy production costs are greatly inflated by the price of hype. However, maps generated using molecular markers often have greatly inflated lengths compared with those predicted from chiasma counts. There was a ‘resistance to creating documents that would prove cost overruns or really inflated charges,’ she said. Authorities counted 314 people as still reported missing but said the number was greatly inflated by double reports and the enduring confusion over the identities of the dead. The figures were greatly inflated, allowing welfare-bashing cronies to misuse the numbers and misrepresent welfare recipients. Many never hear of the good we do, hearing only accounts, and sometimes greatly inflated rumors, of the evil acts perpetrated by others. Oh, and I believe corn syrup is less healthy as well, which further inflates health care costs. Consequently the Labor vote in the first third of the period is greatly inflated, and this contributes to the trend. Consequently, this large size difference greatly inflates the variance in allele size in Europeans. They are also concerned not to inflate building costs - which happened in the late 1990s - and to ensure they get value for money. The terror of the 1972 games in Munich had inflated insurance and security costs, and the boycott by African nations had deprived the 1976 games of their global legitimacy. The company says it could close to $800 million in legal costs and in court inflated payouts by administering compensation via such a scheme. Synonyms increase, raise, put up, boost, escalate, step up informal hike up, jack up, bump up increased, raised, boosted high, excessive, sky-high, unreasonable, unwarranted, disproportionate, prohibitive, outrageous, overinflated, exorbitant, extortionate British over the odds informal over the top, OTT, steep 2.1 Exaggerate. 夸张，夸大 numbers have been grossly inflated by the local press Example sentencesExamples The assertion that these claims have been shown to be grossly inflated is a little premature in my opinion. Others steadfastly maintain that numbers such as those are grossly inflated, and that abduction of children by strangers with bad intent is actually quite rare. It would have been better coming from a real victim and not a spoiled rich brat with an inflated opinion of herself as an Anointed Prophet. The actual number of enemy dead was grossly inflated in order to make it appear that we were winning. But the handicaps for Roberts and Helmar had been grossly inflated, by 14 and 15 strokes. It now looks grossly inflated on the theatre stage. The figures suggested by Trives are grossly inflated and completely unrealistic having regard to the exigent circumstances. Churchill's essay goes to extremes, but like the man in power here, the way to get public opinion aroused is to make inflated statements that hold only a grain of truth. Smith said New Zealand fans have had an inflated opinion of their team's powers and that had created pressure on his players. This can lead to inflated estimates both of apparent local stratigraphic resolution and the degree of faunal endemism. Some folks have said that this is not the only subject area where the EU has an inflated opinion. If the claim to ‘reform’ is grossly inflated, the opposing claim to defend ‘free speech’ is even more ludicrous. The numbers of complaints may also have been inflated by the hysterical, grossly distorted and inflammatory press coverage of the programme. There is no doubt that the issue of fraud has been blown up to inflated proportions by media attention. More to the point, who is kidding who when you have to purchase your ticket to finals now grossly inflated in scale via the humiliations of a play-off? It's just too bad that the movie mixes its messages with mean spirited spitefulness, an inflated opinion of itself and its views, and a mostly unfunny script. He has an inflated opinion of his value to the professional classes. But the inflated opinion Woodgate had apparently developed of himself in a rapid rise to fame and fortune seemed to be punctured by the court cases. The defeat of the nobles in 1488 probably gave Charles an inflated opinion of his own ability and may well have contributed to his belief that he could be a successful adventurer in northern Italy. If he existed at all, and there is some dispute, was probably a local tribal leader whose importance was later inflated to promote religious pride. Synonyms exaggerate, magnify, pump up, overplay, overstate, dramatize, elaborate, enhance, embellish, touch up, blow up, blow up out of all proportion increase, extend, amplify, augment, expand, intensify, swell stretch the truth informal make a big thing out of exaggerated, magnified, aggrandized, unwarranted, immoderate, pumped up, overblown, overripe, overstated, overplayed 3usually with object Bring about inflation of (a currency) or in (an economy) 使（通货）膨胀，使（物价）暴涨 he has inflated the money supply to allow companies to continue in their old ways Example sentencesExamples If a country inflates the currency to pay off its debt, prices will rise so that the dollars or marks or pesos the creditor receives are worth a lot less than the dollars or pesos they originally lent out. For it has long been apparent that central bankers everywhere must like inflating the currency, during working hours at any rate. Beginning with the War of Independence and continuing through the War on Terror, Americans have chosen to pay for their wars by borrowing money and inflating the currency. The assumptions also determine how the earnings of companies in which you invest are inflated or deflated. No central bank on earth, not even the Federal Reserve System, can continually inflate its currency and defy market rates of interest without harming both its currency and the economy. The markets composed of the citizens who will be taxed or whose currency will be inflated will suffer some combination of a direct drain on available dollars and a latent devaluation of dollars not withdrawn. A bullion currency can be inflated, too - but only with great effort and expense - and not by very much. If there is one thing the Fed can do, they say, it is inflate the currency. As expected, the U.S. government inflated the currency, as governments are prone to do. The government will ultimately face the stark reality of raising taxes, cutting spending or inflating the currency to decrease the impact of the debt load. The game comes complete with a single central bank, rules restricting lending competition, and the ability to inflate the currency. Bankers found this arrangement uncomfortable, since it crimped their ability to make profits - which they did primarily by inflating the currency. And while further rate cuts may do more to prod auto sales and housing demand, further inflating the already overheated housing market carries its own risks. It is because of this, and despite the constant attempts by central banks to inflate the currency, that prices are continuing to fall for consumer goods. When the government spends resources, it must drain them from the private economy through taxation and borrowing, or by inflating the money supply. Hence, the central bank may find that despite its attempt to inflate the economy, the money supply will start falling. This action would eliminate currency exchange risks and risks attached to purchasing goods from an economy with a hugely inflated currency. Rates of return above borrowing costs engendered heightened investment, which would tend to inflate the economy's general price level. At present, the State in nearly every country has achieved its major monetary goal: the ability to expand its revenue by inflating the currency at will. In this way the currency could be inflated to pay for the war. Derivatives inflater nounɪnˈfleɪtə As it turned out, the inflator to his dry suit was significantly corroded, likely creating difficulty in dumping air. Example sentencesExamples The addition of seat bags, curtain bags, knee bags and others will add more fabric, inflators, electronics and housings to the market. So forget any housing price bubble factor for at least 5 years as an interest rate inflator. That leads to our next sure-fire house price inflator - transaction taxes, such as stamp duty. Besides looking very different, the principal difference between the two inflators is in how they are put in the ‘ready’ mode. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin inflat- 'blown into', from the verb inflare, from in- 'into' + flare 'to blow'. The Latin verb flare ‘to blow’ is the base of inflate, which literally means ‘blow into’. Deflate (mid 19th century) is its opposite. Rhymes abate, ablate, aerate, ait, await, backdate, bait, bate, berate, castrate, collate, conflate, crate, create, cremate, date, deflate, dictate, dilate, distraite, donate, downstate, eight, elate, equate, estate, fate, fête, fixate, freight, frustrate, gait, gate, gestate, gradate, grate, great, gyrate, hate, hydrate, innate, interrelate, interstate, irate, Kate, Kuwait, lactate, late, locate, lustrate, mandate, mate, migrate, misdate, misstate, mistranslate, mutate, narrate, negate, notate, orate, ornate, Pate, placate, plate, prate, prorate, prostrate, pulsate, pupate, quadrate, rate, rotate, sate, sedate, serrate, short weight, skate, slate, spate, spectate, spruit, stagnate, state, straight, strait, Tate, tête-à-tête, Thwaite, translate, translocate, transmigrate, truncate, underrate, understate, underweight, update, uprate, upstate, up-to-date, vacate, vibrate, wait, weight Definition of inflate in US English: inflate verbinˈflātɪnˈfleɪt 1Fill (a balloon, tire, or other expandable structure) with air or gas so that it becomes distended. 给（气球、轮胎等可扩张物）充气 Example sentencesExamples I am now ready to go - upon my opening my pack of balloons and inflating one, a knot is tied in the end to keep it inflated. At launch, the balloon is partially inflated with helium and expands as it rises. The balloons inflate the network, putting the string under tension while the string holds the balloons in place. The object is an inflated balloon placed in the armpit. Once inside the shelter Snicht hurried around making space for them and inflating three portable mattresses he had. At first I was just vaguely uneasy, because I knew that an office (especially one this size) is not the right place for a hot air balloon to be inflated. The tube contains a balloon which is inflated, blocking the windpipe. Our piece de resistance was a helium tank to inflate Labour Party balloons. By analogy with the rock and the feather, think of a heavy warhead and a very light balloon that is inflated in the shape of a warhead; they would also travel along together in space. On his bicycle, fitted with a luggage box and a carrier, Gokul is taking with him, a kit bag and of course a vacuum pump to inflate the cycle tyres whenever necessary. They're the kind of balloons which when inflated are shaped like round pillows. Also, keep your tyres correctly inflated and get your wheel alignment checked. Smaller balloons are then inflated around the main structure, and the process repeated to create mini-igloos for the guests and staff to sleep in. A few pebbles from my drive in a party balloon partially inflated with water served the purpose. The balloon is inflated to expand the stent. Keeping your tyres inflated at the correct pressure is vital for your health and that of your wallet, as tyres run at the wrong pressure wear prematurely. I arrived at the field by 6.15 a.m. to behold the magnificent sight of the massive balloon half inflated. If the balloon stays partially inflated, it can act as a sail and drag Fossett's closet-sized capsule for miles. We bounced up to 10 feet in the air, catching a glimpse of the mountain peaks and landing on a cushy inflated mattress to spring up in the air again. It was a feeling when your heart felt inflated like a balloon and your feet urged you to skip. Synonyms blown up, aerated, filled, puffed up, puffed out, pumped up 1.1no object Become distended by being filled with air or gas. Example sentencesExamples The flower buds are hollow balloons, which gradually inflate and color up. A cryptic chorus of sound accompanies these series of visions while a swirling and undulating hot air balloon figure slowly inflates under the night sky. When the balloon inflates, the spring-like stent expands and locks into place inside the artery. As he strained upward, grunting, his entire body seemed to swell, like a balloon inflating. As the balloon inflates, though, the pressure needed to expand it further decreases dramatically. If we were to mark a number of equidistant points on the surface of the balloon, then as the balloon inflates the two-dimensional universe expands in the sense that every point on the balloon's surface recedes from every other. The bigger the balloon inflates, the bigger the explosion when it pops. Twelve fully automatic programs for various types of shirts and materials take care of the rest: The shell made of balloon silk literally inflates itself with hot air and gets the shirts into shape. They inflate differently and behave differently, and once blown up, they can't be deflated for storage or re-used. The Dressman's shell, which is made from balloon silk, inflates as it fills with hot air and presses the garment into shape, smoothing out creases and wrinkles. ‘You can think of a magma chamber as a balloon inflating and deflating,’ says Pritchard. Bowl followed bowl until his stomach inflated like a beach balloon and he staggered from the table on the verge of collapse. About 10 minutes later, small air pockets throughout the mattress begin inflating and deflating to produce a gentle rocking motion. Then the outside of the lava freezes to form a glassy, vesicle-free skin which inflates like a balloon until the surface is ruptured and a new pillow begins to form. There are also carnival games: squirting water into the clown's mouth where the balloon inflates. Compressed air is blown into an opening and the two sheets inflate. Unfortunately the balloon refused to inflate properly and just dragged along on the surface of the sea. Synonyms blow up, fill with air, aerate, fill up, puff up, puff out, pump up 2Increase (something) by a large or excessive amount. 使大幅增加，使极度增长 objectives should be clearly set out so as not to duplicate work and inflate costs 必须明确提出目标以避免重复工作和大幅增加成本。 Example sentencesExamples A buoyant stock market minimized post retirement pension costs by inflating the value of pension assets. Block billing can be a method of burying costs and inflating legal bills. She told the High Court in Leeds today that such a claim was ‘totally incredible’, and claimed that the costs application was inflated. And the rising cost of energy is inflating the price of just about everything we purchase. The terror of the 1972 games in Munich had inflated insurance and security costs, and the boycott by African nations had deprived the 1976 games of their global legitimacy. Property agencies say this year's festival will see yet another increase in the number of flats on the temporary market, and at increasingly inflated prices. I feel it is totally unacceptable to place this burden on the already overtaxed householders who are facing increasingly inflated council tax bills. Authorities counted 314 people as still reported missing but said the number was greatly inflated by double reports and the enduring confusion over the identities of the dead. But what about those who need housing but cannot afford to buy at greatly inflated prices? Comedy production costs are greatly inflated by the price of hype. However, as with exit fees, a growing number of lenders are cottoning on to the fact that inflated charges can increase their profits. Consequently, this large size difference greatly inflates the variance in allele size in Europeans. They are also concerned not to inflate building costs - which happened in the late 1990s - and to ensure they get value for money. Oh, and I believe corn syrup is less healthy as well, which further inflates health care costs. There was a ‘resistance to creating documents that would prove cost overruns or really inflated charges,’ she said. However, maps generated using molecular markers often have greatly inflated lengths compared with those predicted from chiasma counts. The figures were greatly inflated, allowing welfare-bashing cronies to misuse the numbers and misrepresent welfare recipients. Consequently the Labor vote in the first third of the period is greatly inflated, and this contributes to the trend. Many never hear of the good we do, hearing only accounts, and sometimes greatly inflated rumors, of the evil acts perpetrated by others. The company says it could close to $800 million in legal costs and in court inflated payouts by administering compensation via such a scheme. Synonyms increase, raise, put up, boost, escalate, step up increased, raised, boosted 2.1 Exaggerate. 夸张，夸大 numbers have been grossly inflated by the local press Example sentencesExamples There is no doubt that the issue of fraud has been blown up to inflated proportions by media attention. More to the point, who is kidding who when you have to purchase your ticket to finals now grossly inflated in scale via the humiliations of a play-off? The numbers of complaints may also have been inflated by the hysterical, grossly distorted and inflammatory press coverage of the programme. If he existed at all, and there is some dispute, was probably a local tribal leader whose importance was later inflated to promote religious pride. But the inflated opinion Woodgate had apparently developed of himself in a rapid rise to fame and fortune seemed to be punctured by the court cases. It now looks grossly inflated on the theatre stage. Some folks have said that this is not the only subject area where the EU has an inflated opinion. This can lead to inflated estimates both of apparent local stratigraphic resolution and the degree of faunal endemism. The figures suggested by Trives are grossly inflated and completely unrealistic having regard to the exigent circumstances. Smith said New Zealand fans have had an inflated opinion of their team's powers and that had created pressure on his players. He has an inflated opinion of his value to the professional classes. The actual number of enemy dead was grossly inflated in order to make it appear that we were winning. It's just too bad that the movie mixes its messages with mean spirited spitefulness, an inflated opinion of itself and its views, and a mostly unfunny script. It would have been better coming from a real victim and not a spoiled rich brat with an inflated opinion of herself as an Anointed Prophet. If the claim to ‘reform’ is grossly inflated, the opposing claim to defend ‘free speech’ is even more ludicrous. But the handicaps for Roberts and Helmar had been grossly inflated, by 14 and 15 strokes. The defeat of the nobles in 1488 probably gave Charles an inflated opinion of his own ability and may well have contributed to his belief that he could be a successful adventurer in northern Italy. The assertion that these claims have been shown to be grossly inflated is a little premature in my opinion. Others steadfastly maintain that numbers such as those are grossly inflated, and that abduction of children by strangers with bad intent is actually quite rare. Churchill's essay goes to extremes, but like the man in power here, the way to get public opinion aroused is to make inflated statements that hold only a grain of truth. Synonyms exaggerate, magnify, pump up, overplay, overstate, dramatize, elaborate, enhance, embellish, touch up, blow up, blow up out of all proportion exaggerated, magnified, aggrandized, unwarranted, immoderate, pumped up, overblown, overripe, overstated, overplayed 3Bring about inflation of (a currency) or in (an economy). 使（通货）膨胀，使（物价）暴涨 Example sentencesExamples The markets composed of the citizens who will be taxed or whose currency will be inflated will suffer some combination of a direct drain on available dollars and a latent devaluation of dollars not withdrawn. Hence, the central bank may find that despite its attempt to inflate the economy, the money supply will start falling. The government will ultimately face the stark reality of raising taxes, cutting spending or inflating the currency to decrease the impact of the debt load. Rates of return above borrowing costs engendered heightened investment, which would tend to inflate the economy's general price level. For it has long been apparent that central bankers everywhere must like inflating the currency, during working hours at any rate. At present, the State in nearly every country has achieved its major monetary goal: the ability to expand its revenue by inflating the currency at will. If a country inflates the currency to pay off its debt, prices will rise so that the dollars or marks or pesos the creditor receives are worth a lot less than the dollars or pesos they originally lent out. A bullion currency can be inflated, too - but only with great effort and expense - and not by very much. The game comes complete with a single central bank, rules restricting lending competition, and the ability to inflate the currency. If there is one thing the Fed can do, they say, it is inflate the currency. It is because of this, and despite the constant attempts by central banks to inflate the currency, that prices are continuing to fall for consumer goods. The assumptions also determine how the earnings of companies in which you invest are inflated or deflated. No central bank on earth, not even the Federal Reserve System, can continually inflate its currency and defy market rates of interest without harming both its currency and the economy. This action would eliminate currency exchange risks and risks attached to purchasing goods from an economy with a hugely inflated currency. When the government spends resources, it must drain them from the private economy through taxation and borrowing, or by inflating the money supply. And while further rate cuts may do more to prod auto sales and housing demand, further inflating the already overheated housing market carries its own risks. Bankers found this arrangement uncomfortable, since it crimped their ability to make profits - which they did primarily by inflating the currency. In this way the currency could be inflated to pay for the war. Beginning with the War of Independence and continuing through the War on Terror, Americans have chosen to pay for their wars by borrowing money and inflating the currency. As expected, the U.S. government inflated the currency, as governments are prone to do. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin inflat- ‘blown into’, from the verb inflare, from in- ‘into’ + flare ‘to blow’.
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