unbloat

Verb

unbloat (third-person singular simple present unbloats, present participle unbloating, simple past and past participle unbloated)

1. (transitive) To relieve the bloatedness of.
   • When we came back in the evening she would be bitter and spiteful and get bloated on purpose, and Cal and I would have to run her up and down until long after dark to unbloat her.1967, The American West, page 28
   • His twenty-four-year old^([sic]) son, a gym rat, had only last week told him about a bodybuilder who collapsed and died, on stage, after having ingested enough diuretics to unbloat a sick elephant.2011, David Harkness, Takedown, →ISBN, page 65
2. (intransitive) To cease being bloated.
   • Now, the unbearable heat broken, awnings unbloat, locusts crank up their battery-green volts and I climb the stairs1988, Crazyhorse - Issues 34-37, page 13
   • If you cinch her up like that she'll unbloat soon as you get on her, and throw you and roll the saddle down under her belly, then go wild.1995, Elizabeth Crook, Promised Lands: A Novel of the Texas Rebellion, →ISBN, page 30