Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a manner tending to inflate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a manner tending to inflate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
inflating manner.
Etymologies
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inflating + -ly
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Examples
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Something had satisfied the grosser appetite; something was tugging and choking the old into submission while the new was crowding into its realm, buoyantly, inflatingly.
Nedra George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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