noun
- A general and progressive increase in prices.
- usage: "in inflation everything gets more valuable except money"
- synonyms: rising prices
- Cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang. (
- Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity.
- synonyms: ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness
- The act of filling something with air. .
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