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bloated

[ bloh-tid ]

adjective

  1. swollen; puffed up; overlarge.
  2. excessively vain; conceited.
  3. excessively fat; obese.


bloated

/ ˈ²ú±ôəʊ³Ùɪ»å /

adjective

  1. swollen, as with a liquid, air, or wind
  2. puffed up, as with conceit
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ²ú±ô´Ç²¹³ÙĻå·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
  • ³Ü²Ô·²ú±ô´Ç²¹³ÙĻå adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of bloated1

First recorded in 1655–65; bloat + -ed 2
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A bloated mafia petro-state where one man decides everything, where bureaucrats and siloviki gorge themselves on stolen wealth, where the government doesn’t shrink but suffocates everything beneath it.

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Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the move was the "beginning not the end" and he wants to slim down bloated bureaucracy, meaning more quangos could go.

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Writing in the Telegraph, Streeting suggested scrapping NHS England was "the beginning, not the end" and said he would continue "slashing bloated bureaucracy".

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That campaign also carried American political satire to new heights as, typically, a withering political cartoon caricatured a monstrously bloated Hanna, reclining on money bags given by millionaires like banker J.P.

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Its press release about the reduction referred to the program’s “bloated workforce.â€

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