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bloating

/bloht/US // bloʊt //UK // (bləʊt) //

腹胀,胀气,膨胀,臃肿

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to expand or distend, as with air, water, etc.; cause to swell: Overeating bloated their bellies.
    • : to puff up; make vain or conceited: The promotion has bloated his ego to an alarming degree.
    • : to cure as bloaters.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to become swollen; be puffed out or dilated: The carcass started to bloat.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Also called hoven. Veterinary Pathology. a distention of the rumen or paunch or of the large colon by gases of fermentation, caused by eating ravenously of green forage, especially legumes.
    • : a person or thing that is bloated.
    • : bloater.

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Examples

  • “It has helped with the bloating,” Williford says, which had gotten so bad she says she sometimes looked several months pregnant.

  • Now those are destroyed, too, and the animals are strewn about, bloating and stinking, as if in a tableau of “Guernica.”

  • Because they are poorly absorbed, these FODMAPs feed our gut bacteria, which then cause bloating and cramps.

  • The regime tries to buy popularity by bloating the state sector.

  • The poison was spreading swiftly through his veins, and we could almost see his body swell, so rapidly was it bloating him.

  • There is more or less of hazard to cows when grazing on alfalfa—liability to bloating, which may result fatally.

  • He backed against the wall, bloating with fear in spite of himself.

  • His features changed slowly as he talked because of acceleration-driven blood engorging his lips and bloating his cheeks.

  • The bloating of my bowels and limbs ceased, and I felt much better.