ballooned
past simple and past participle ofballoon
balloon
verb[I]
uk/bəˈluːn/us/bəˈluːn/to getbiggerandrounder:
I ballooned when I waspregnantwith my secondbaby.
toquicklyincreaseinsize,weight, orimportance:
Therumourssoonballoonedintoafull-blownscandal.
Becoming bigger
- accrete
- accrue
- anti-growth
- bell
- billow
- bump
- elongate
- engorged
- enlarge
- enlargement
- expansion
- extension
- oak
- pile
- puff up
- putsomethingon
- regenerate
- scalability
- scalable
- stretch
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Enlarging and inflating
Increasing and intensifying
Examplesofballooned
ballooned
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The number of capital statutesballoonedin the eighteenth century to over 200.
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The associated peso obligationsballoonedfollowed the devaluation.
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When a serious problem arose, the number of petitions must haveballoonedto a staggering degree.
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In recent years, interest in intelligent agents hasballooned.
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It then examines the reform process, beginning in the mid 1980s when spending on industrial promotionballoonedout of control and continuing to the late 1990s.
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And now that pulmonary arterial stenoses can beballoonedor stented in the catheterization laboratory,9 the risk attributable to architectural problems has also been ameliorated.
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By 1996–97, it hadballoonedto an alarming £1,477 million.
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One reason why non-traditional housingballoonedwas that it was a way to build homes without using skilled manpower.
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The number of applicants waitingballooneduntil reality eventually dawned.
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Such a matter is almost inevitablyballoonedout of all proportion.
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It is covered with aballoonedfabric—the street "garage".
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We have already heard that redress payments to dissatisfied clients haveballoonedto more than £4 million in 1999, settling down to an average of £3 million or £2.5 millior ever since.
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I accept that the total waiting list figure, havingballoonedfrom 8,391 two years ago to more than 11,500, has come down to 9,961; but that is still unacceptably high.
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The lead was twelve points at halftime, butballoonedto 31 by the end of the game.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Better left alone, it yields aballoonedreturn catch to the bowler or to close-in fielders.
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