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bloats

UK/bləʊts/US/bloʊts/

bloats is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bloat.

bloats is the plural of bloat.

Meaning of bloat

Verb

bloat (third-person singular simple present bloats, present participle bloating, simple past and past participle bloated)

  1. To cause to become distended.
  2. (intransitive) To get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
  3. To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.
  4. (intransitive) To become distended; to swell up.
    • if a Person of a firm Conſtitution begins to bloat, and from being warm grows cold, his Fibres grow weak, Anxiety and Palpitations of the Heart are a ſign of weak Fibres1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC
  5. To fill with vanity or conceit.
    • Encourage him, and bloat him up with Praise1675, John Dryden, Prologue to Circe by Dr. Davenant
  6. (dated) To preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking.
    • bloated herring

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Words that rhyme with bloats

Questions about bloats

What is bloats the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bloats is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bloat.
How do you pronounce bloats?
Bloats is pronounced /bləʊts/ (UK).

Words near bloats in the dictionary

  1. bloatier
  2. bloatiest
  3. bloatiness
  4. bloating
  5. bloatings
  6. bloats
  7. bloatsome
  8. bloatware
  9. bloaty
  10. blob
  11. blob of death

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bloats (page history and authors); bloat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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