Synonyms of the word inflate


INFLATEALTER - AMPLIFY - BALLOON - BILLOW - CHANGE - CUT - EXPAND - INCREASE - MODIFY - REDUCE - TRIM

inflate

  • v. (transitive) To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally.
  • v. (intransitive) To enlarge by filling with air (or a gas).
  • v. (figuratively) To swell; to puff up.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously deflated.

alter

  • v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
  • v. (intransitive) To become different.
  • v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
  • v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

amplify

  • v. (transitive) To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like;—used especially of loudspeakers,…
  • v. (transitive, rhetorical) To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars,…
  • v. (transitive) To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.

balloon

  • n. An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
  • n. Such an object as a child’s toy.
  • n. Such an object designed to transport people through the air.
  • n. (medicine) A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
  • n. A speech bubble.
  • n. A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.
  • n. (architecture) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
  • n. (chemistry) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass…
  • n. (pyrotechnics) A bomb or shell.
  • n. A game played with a large inflated ball.
  • n. (engraving) The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
  • n. (slang) A woman’s breast.
  • v. (intransitive) To increase or expand rapidly.
  • v. (intransitive) To go up or voyage in a balloon.
  • v. (transitive) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
  • v. (transitive) To inflate like a balloon.

billow

  • n. A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound.
  • v. To surge or roll in billows.
  • v. To swell out or bulge.

change

  • v. (intransitive) To become something different.
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
  • v. (transitive) To replace.
  • v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
  • v. (archaic) To exchange.
  • v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
  • n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
  • n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
  • n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
  • n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
  • n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
  • n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
  • n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
  • n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
  • n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
  • n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

cut

  • adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
  • adj. Reduced.
  • adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
  • adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
  • adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
  • adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
  • adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
  • adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
  • adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
  • adj. Removed from a team roster.
  • adj. (New Zealand) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
  • n. An opening resulting from cutting.
  • n. The act of cutting.
  • n. The result of cutting.
  • n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
  • n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distingished from a navigable river.
  • n. A share or portion.
  • n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
  • n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the…
  • n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also,…
  • n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained…
  • n. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
  • n. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
  • n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
  • n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
  • n. A slab, especially of meat.
  • n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
  • n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
  • n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio…
  • n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits…
  • n. A haircut.
  • n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
  • n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
  • n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
  • n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
  • n. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
  • n. A skein of yarn.
  • v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
  • v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
  • v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
  • v. (intransitive, film, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
  • v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
  • v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
  • v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
  • v. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball…
  • v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
  • v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To write.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
  • v. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
  • v. (transitive) To stop or disengage.
  • v. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball,…

expand

  • v. (transitive) To change (something) from a smaller form and/or size to a larger one.
  • v. (transitive) To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).
  • v. (transitive) To express (something) at length and/or in detail.
  • v. (transitive, algebra) To rewrite (an expression) as a longer, yet equivalent sum of terms.
  • v. (transitive, arithmetic) To multiply both the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same…
  • v. (intransitive) To (be) change(d) from a smaller form/size to a larger one.
  • v. (intransitive) To (be) increase(d) in extent, number, volume or scope.
  • v. (intransitive) To speak or write at length or in detail.
  • v. (intransitive) To feel generous or optimistic.

increase

  • v. (intransitive) (of a quantity) To become larger.
  • v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) larger.
  • v. To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
  • v. (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
  • n. An amount by which a quantity is increased.
  • n. For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
  • n. (knitting) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).

modify

  • v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
  • v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

reduce

  • v. (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish,…
  • v. (intransitive) To lose weight.
  • v. (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
  • v. (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
  • v. (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
  • v. (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
  • v. (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
  • v. (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
  • v. (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
  • v. (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
  • v. (transitive, law) To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to…
  • v. (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
  • v. (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To translate (a book, document, etc.).

trim

  • v. (transitive) To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess; e.g. 'trim a hedge', 'trim a beard'…
  • v. (transitive) To decorate or adorn; especially of a Christmas tree.
  • v. (transitive, aviation, of an aircraft) To adjust pitch using trim tabs.
  • v. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel) To modify the angle relative to the water by shifting cargo or ballast;…
  • v. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel's sails) To modify the angle (of the sails) relative to the wind, especially…
  • v. (dated) To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favour each.
  • v. (transitive) To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
  • v. (transitive, carpentry, of timber) To dress; to make smooth.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To rebuke; to reprove; also, to beat.
  • n. (uncountable) Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.
  • n. (countable) A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style.
  • n. Dress; gear; ornaments.
  • n. (countable) The manner in which something is equipped or adorned; order; disposition.
  • n. (uncountable, slang, mildly vulgar) Sexual intercourse.
  • n. (nautical) The fore-and-aft angle of the vessel to the water, with reference to the cargo and ballast;…
  • n. (nautical) The arrangement of the sails with reference to the wind.
  • adj. Physically fit.
  • adj. Slender, lean.
  • adj. Neat or smart in appearance.
  • adv. (nautical) In good order, properly managed or maintained.
  • adv. (nautical) With sails well trimmed.

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