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What does bloat mean?

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Verb
  1. to cause to become distended.
  2. (intransitive) (veterinary medicine) to get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
  3. to fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell
  4. (intransitive) to become distended; to swell up
  5. to fill with vanity or conceit
  6. to preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking
Noun
  1. distention of the abdomen from death
  2. (veterinary medicine) pathological overdistention of rumen with gas in a ruminant
  3. (figuratively) wasteful use of space
  4. (derogatory) A worthless, dissipated fellow.
Adjective
  1. (obsolete) bloated
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