verb
- Exaggerate or make bigger.
- usage: "The charges were inflated"
- Fill with gas or air.
- usage: "inflate a balloons"
- Cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit.
- usage: "The war inflated the economy"
- synonyms: inflate
- Increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value.
- usage: "inflate the currency"
- synonyms: inflate
- Become inflated.
- usage: "The sails ballooned"
adjective
- Enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness.
- usage: "a hyperbolic style"
- synonyms: hyperbolic
- Pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals. )
- usage: "high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school"; "a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution"
- synonyms: high-flown, high-sounding
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