bloat

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To cause to swell up or inflate, as with liquid or gas.
2. v. To cure (fish) by soaking in brine and half-drying in smoke.
3. v. To become swollen or inflated: "Government had bloated out of control” ( Lance Morrow).
4. n. A swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of cattle and domestic animals that is caused by excessive gas formation following fermentation of ingested watery legumes or green forage.
5. n. An excess or surfeit, as of employees, expenses, or procedures: corporate bloat.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Cured by smoking: as, a bloat herring.
2. See bloater.
3. To cure by smoking, as herrings. Formerly spelled blote.
4. Puffed; swollen; turgid: as, “the bloat king,”
5. To make turgid or swollen, as with air, water, etc.; cause to swell, as with a dropsical humor; inflate; puff up; hence, make vain, conceited, etc.
6. To become swollen; be puffed out or dilated; dilate.
7. n. The bloater whitefish, Argyrosomus prognathus.

Wiktionary

1. v. to cause to become distended
2. v. to fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell
3. v. to fill with vanity or conceit
4. v. to preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking, (as in bloated herring).
5. n. distention of the abdomen from death

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular tissue, producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied with softness.
2. v. To inflate; to puff up; to make vain.
3. v. To grow turgid as by effusion of liquid in the cellular tissue; to puff out; to swell.
4. adj. rare Bloated.
5. n. Slang A term of contempt for a worthless, dissipated fellow.
6. v. To dry (herrings) in smoke. See blote.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. become bloated or swollen or puff up
2. v. make bloated or swollen
3. n. swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of domestic animals caused by excessive gas