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hyperinflate

hyperinflate verb: to inflate excessively.

Verb

hyperinflate (third-person singular simple present hyperinflates, present participle hyperinflating, simple past and past participle hyperinflated)

  1. (transitive) To inflate excessively.
    • Wishing for unlimited money would hyperinflate the market and make your money useless.
  2. (intransitive) To be inflated excessively.
    • As the chest wall and lungs hyperinflate, they progressively resist further inflation by virtue of their elastic recoil characteristics.
  3. (transitive) To subject to hyperinflation.
    • Both economies recklessly decide to hyperinflate their currencies.

Forms of hyperinflate

third-person singular presenthyperinflates
present participlehyperinflating
past participlehyperinflated
pasthyperinflated

Origin of hyperinflate

From hyper- + inflate.

Questions about hyperinflate

What does hyperinflate mean?
Hyperinflate means to inflate excessively.
What part of speech is hyperinflate?
Hyperinflate is a verb.
What is the past tense of hyperinflate?
The past tense of hyperinflate is hyperinflated.

Words near hyperinflate in the dictionary

  1. hyperinfestation
  2. hyperinfestations
  3. hyperinflamed
  4. hyperinflammation
  5. hyperinflammatory
  6. hyperinflate
  7. hyperinflated
  8. hyperinflates
  9. hyperinflating
  10. hyperinflation
  11. hyperinflationary

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