1 to fill sth or become filled with gas or air:
[VN] Inflate your life jacket by pulling sharply on the cord. * The balloons had been inflated with helium. * When attacked, the fish inflates itself to twice its size. * [V] The life jacket failed to inflate.
2 [VN] (written) to make sth appear to be more important or impressive than it really is:
The media have grossly inflated the significance of this meeting.
3 (written) to increase in price; to increase the price of sth:
[VN] The principal effect of the demand for new houses was to inflate prices. * The profit margin had been artificially inflated. * [V] Food prices are no longer inflating at the same rate as last year.
compareDEFLATE, REFLATE
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for inflate is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is inflate a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, inflate is tagged as verb.
Does inflate appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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