All inflate synonyms
inΒ·flate
I i verb inflate
- blow up β If someone blows something up or if it blows up, it is destroyed by an explosion.
- widen β Make or become wider.
- magnify β to increase the apparent size of, as a lens does.
- augment β To augment something means to make it larger, stronger, or more effective by adding something to it.
- bloat β to swell or cause to swell, as with a liquid, air, or wind
- pad β Packet Assembler/Disassembler
- boost β If one thing boosts another, it causes it to increase, improve, or be more successful.
- overestimate β to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like: Don't overestimate the car's trade-in value.
- maximize β to increase to the greatest possible amount or degree: to look for ways of maximizing profit.
- distend β Swell or cause to swell by pressure from inside.
- pyramid β Architecture. (in ancient Egypt) a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb. (in ancient Egypt and pre-Columbian Central America) a quadrilateral masonry mass, stepped and sharply sloping, used as a tomb or a platform for a temple.
- raise β to move to a higher position; lift up; elevate: to raise one's hand; sleepy birds raising their heads and looking about.
- aerate β To aerate a substance means to cause air or gas to pass through it.
- dilate β to make wider or larger; cause to expand.
- stretch β to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
- balloon β A balloon is a small, thin, rubber bag that you blow air into so that it becomes larger and rounder or longer. Balloons are used as toys or decorations.
- spread β to draw, stretch, or open out, especially over a flat surface, as something rolled or folded (often followed by out).
- cram β If you cram things or people into a container or place, you put them into it, although there is hardly enough room for them.
- surcharge β an additional charge, tax, or cost.
- aggrandize β To aggrandize someone means to make them seem richer, more powerful, and more important than they really are. To aggrandize a building means to make it more impressive.
- amplify β If you amplify a sound, you make it louder, usually by using electronic equipment.
- beef up β If you beef up something, you increase, strengthen, or improve it.
- build up β If you build up something or if it builds up, it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it.
- flesh out β the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
- pump up β an apparatus or machine for raising, driving, exhausting, or compressing fluids or gases by means of a piston, plunger, or set of rotating vanes.
- expand β explain
- fill β to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
- swell β to grow in bulk, as by the absorption of moisture or the processes of growth.
- increase β to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- enlarge β Make or become bigger or more extensive.
- escalate β Increase rapidly.
- exaggerate β Represent (something) as being larger, greater, better, or worse than it really is.
- maximise β to increase to the greatest possible amount or degree: to look for ways of maximizing profit.
- exalt β Hold (someone or something) in very high regard; think or speak very highly of.
- embellish β Make (something) more attractive by the addition of decorative details or features.
- overstate β to state too strongly; exaggerate: to overstate one's position in a controversy.
- go up β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
noun inflate
- bladder β Your bladder is the part of your body where urine is stored until it leaves your body.