Using your own breath or an air pump, you can inflate a balloon or anything else you need to pump air into. When you inflate something you fill it with air (or any other gas) to make it expand.
Blown in; inflated.
Verb
become inflated; "The sails ballooned"
Verb
fill with gas or air; "inflate a balloons"
Verb
exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated"
Verb
increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value; "inflate the currency"
Verb
cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit; "The war inflated the economy"
p. a.
Blown in; inflated.
v. t.
To swell or distend with air or gas; to dilate; to
expand; to enlarge; as, to inflate a bladder; to inflate the lungs.
v. t.
Fig.: To swell; to puff up; to elate; as, to inflate
one with pride or vanity.
v. t.
To cause to become unduly expanded or increased; as, to
inflate the currency.
v. i.
To expand; to fill; to distend.
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When passion's tumults in the bosom rise, Inflate the features, and enrage the eyes.2.
Inflate themselves with some insane delight.3.
Inflate
Blown in; inflated.
To swell or distend with air or gas; to dilate; to expand; to enlarge;
To expand; to fill; to distend.
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