inflates

Meaning of inflates

verb, 3rd person present
  1. fill (a balloon, tyre, or other expandable structure) with air or gas so that it becomes distended.
    never use an air line on a garage forecourt to inflate your tyres
  2. increase (something) by a large or excessive amount.
    objectives should be clearly set out so as not to duplicate work and inflate costs
  3. bring about inflation of (a currency) or in (an economy).
    he has inflated the money supply to allow companies to continue in their old ways

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

Information about inflates

  • It is a verb.
  • The singular form of inflates is: inflate.
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Hyphenation of inflates

in-flates

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • inflates is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

inflates synonyms

Meaning (of a liquid) made effervescent by being charged with carbon dioxide or some other gas:

aerated

Meaning cause (a space or container) to become full or almost full:

filled

Meaning make or become wider, larger, or more open:

dilated

Meaning swollen due to pressure from inside; bloated:

distended

Meaning (of something soft or elastic) be made or be capable of being made longer or wider without tearing or breaking:

stretched

Meaning being or having been enlarged or extended:

expanded

Meaning cause to swell with blood, water, or another fluid:

engorged

Meaning having become or been made larger:

enlarged

Meaning (especially of a part of the body) become larger or rounder in size, typically as a result of an accumulation of fluid:

swollen

Meaning become or make greater in size, amount, or degree:

increase, increased

Meaning lift or move to a higher position or level:

raise

Meaning help or encourage (something) to increase or improve:

boost, boosted

Meaning increase rapidly:

escalate

Meaning elevated to a higher position or level; lifted:

raised

Meaning of great vertical extent:

high

Meaning more than is necessary, normal, or desirable; immoderate:

excessive

Meaning not guided by or based on good sense:

unreasonable

Meaning not justified or authorized:

unwarranted

Meaning too large or too small in comparison with something else:

disproportionate

Meaning (of a law or rule) forbidding or restricting something:

prohibitive

Meaning shockingly bad or excessive:

outrageous

Meaning (of a price or value) excessive:

overinflated

Meaning (of a price or amount charged) unreasonably high:

exorbitant

Meaning (of a price) much too high; exorbitant:

extortionate

Meaning (of a slope, flight of stairs, or angle) rising or falling sharply; almost perpendicular:

steep

inflates antonyms

Meaning having been emptied of air or gas:

deflated

Meaning make or become smaller or fewer in size, amount, intensity, or degree:

decrease

Meaning make (someone) feel utterly dispirited or dejected:

depress

Meaning make smaller or less in amount, degree, or size:

reduced

Meaning of less than average height from top to bottom or to the top from the ground:

low

Anagrams of inflates

Fanestil

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