Bloat

bloat
    n 1: swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of domestic
         animals caused by excessive gas
    v 1: become bloated or swollen or puff up; "The dead man's
         stomach was bloated"
    2: make bloated or swollen; "Hunger bloated the child's belly"
    

Bloat \Bloat\ (bl[=o]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bloated}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Bloating}.] [Cf. Icel. blotna to become soft, blautr
   soft, wet, Sw. bl["o]t soft, bl["o]ta to soak; akin to G.
   bloss bare, and AS. ble['a]t wretched; or perh. fr. root of
   Eng. 5th blow. Cf. {Blote}.]
   1. 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.
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   2. To inflate; to puff up; to make vain. --Dryden.
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Bloat \Bloat\, v. i.
   To grow turgid as by effusion of liquid in the cellular
   tissue; to puff out; to swell. --Arbuthnot.
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Bloat \Bloat\, a.
   Bloated. [R.] --Shak.
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Bloat \Bloat\, n.
   A term of contempt for a worthless, dissipated fellow.
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Bloat \Bloat\, v. t.
   To dry (herrings) in smoke. See {Blote}.
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software bloat
bloat

   <jargon, abuse> The result of adding new features to a program
   or system to the point where the benefit of the new features
   is outweighed by the extra resources consumed ({RAM}, disk
   space or performance) and complexity of use.  Software bloat
   is an instance of Parkinson's Law: resource requirements
   expand to consume the resources available.  Causes of software
   bloat include {second-system effect} and {creeping
   featuritis}.  Commonly cited examples include Unix's "{ls}(1)"
   command, the {X Window System}, {BSD}, {Missed'em-five},
   {OS/2} and any {Microsoft} product.

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   (1995-10-16)
    

116 Moby Thesaurus words for "bloat":
      accrue, accumulate, add to, advance, aggrandize, amplify,
      appreciate, augment, balloon, bloatedness, bloating, blotter,
      blow up, blowing up, boom, boozehound, boozer, breaking point,
      breed, broaden, build, build up, bulk, bulk out, crescendo,
      develop, diastole, dilatation, dilate, dilation, distend,
      distension, dropsy, drunk, edema, enlarge, expand, extend,
      extreme tension, fill out, flatulence, flatulency, flatus, gain,
      gain strength, gassiness, get ahead, go up, greaten, grow, guzzler,
      hike, hike up, huff, increase, inebriate, inflate, inflation,
      intensify, intumescence, lush, magnify, meteorism, mount, multiply,
      overdistension, overdrawing, overexpansion, overextension,
      overstrain, overstraining, overstretching, proliferate, puff,
      puff up, puffiness, puffing, pump, pump up, raise, rarefy, rise,
      run up, shoot up, snapping point, snowball, soak, sot, sponge,
      spread, strain, straining, strengthen, stretch, stretching,
      sufflate, swell, swellage, swelling, swollenness, tension, tippler,
      tumefaction, tumefy, tumescence, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence,
      turgidity, turgidness, tympanism, tympany, up, wax, widen,
      windiness