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# bloated

adjective (bloated); verb, past form of bloat

«bloated» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Swollen and bigger than normal because of air, gas or liquid. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloated/#m1)
2. Feeling uncomfortably full after eating or drinking. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloated/#m2)
3. Too big, with too much in it (a bloated budget, bloated software). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloated/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life after a big Christmas dinner people say «I feel bloated». In stories, a bloated body or toad is swollen and ugly. In news, a «bloated government» means too big and wasteful.

### Examples

- I feel so bloated after that pizza. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloated/#x1)
- A bloated frog sat on the lily pad. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloated/#x2)
- The dog looked bloated, so we took it to the vet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloated/#x3)
- The game is bloated with adverts. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloated/#x4)
- My stomach felt bloated after the fizzy drink. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloated/#x5)
- He was like a tub that could never get full; he snored like a whole sty of pigs, and he looked red and bloated. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloated/#x6)

### Note

Often after «feel» or «look». A sudden, very bloated, hard tummy in a dog is an emergency for the vet.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «bloated» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloated/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«bloated» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/bloated.html) on Mova free.