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How to pronounce “bloat”
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Pronunciation guide for bloat
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of bloat with real speech in context.
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- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The Best Possible You
That's why we feel full, we feel bloated,
- Definition summary
- To cause to become distended.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce bloat
The Best Possible You
That's why we feel full, we feel bloated,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “bloat”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- To cause to become distended.
- (intransitive, veterinary medicine) To get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
- To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.
- (intransitive) To become distended; to swell up.
- To fill with vanity or conceit.
- (dated) To preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking.
- To increase to an excessive amount.
- [Noun]
- Distention of the abdomen from death.
- (veterinary medicine) Pathological overdistention of rumen with gas in a ruminant.
- (figurative) Wasteful use of space or other resources.
- (derogatory, slang, dated) A worthless, dissipated fellow.
- (collective) A group of hippopotamuses.
- [Adjective]
- (obsolete) bloated.
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