VERB | change | inflate, blow up, expand, amplify | exaggerate or make bigger |
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change | inflate, blow up | fill with gas or air | |
change | inflate | cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit | |
change | inflate | increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value | |
change | inflate, balloon, billow | become inflated |
Sounds | ihnfley't | |
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Rhymes | abate ... welterweight: 559 rhymes with eyt... |
Meaning | exaggerate or make bigger. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
Example | "The charges were inflated" | |
Synonyms | blow up, expand, amplify | |
Narrower | puff up | make larger / larger or distend |
Broader | increase | make bigger or more |
Spanish | ampliar, amplificar, ensanchar, expandir | |
Catalan | ampliar, amplificar, eixamplar, estendre, expandir, inflar |
Meaning | Fill with gas or air. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
Example | "inflate a balloons" | |
Synonym | blow up | |
Narrower | billow, surge, heave | Rise and move, as in waves or billows |
reflate | inflate again | |
Broader | expand | make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity |
Opposite | deflate | Become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air |
Spanish | hincharse, hinchar, inflarse, inflar, subir | |
Catalan | inflar-se, inflar, unflar | |
Adjectives | inflatable | designed to be filled with air or gas |
Nouns | inflater, inflator | an air pump operated by hand to inflate something (as a tire) |
inflation | the act of filling something with air |
Meaning | Cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s something | |
Example | "The war inflated the economy" | |
Narrower | reflate | (economics) raise demand, expand the money supply, or raise prices, after a period of deflation |
Broader | change, alter, modify | Cause to change |
Opposite | deflate | produce deflation in |
Nouns | inflation | a general and progressive increase / increase in prices / prices |
Meaning | increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s somebody | |
Example | "inflate the currency" | |
Broader | reduce, cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down | cut down on |
Opposite | deflate | Reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices |
Nouns | inflation | a general and progressive increase / increase in prices / prices |
Meaning | Become inflated. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP | |
Synonyms | balloon, billow | |
Narrower | reflate | Become inflated again |
Broader | expand | Become larger / larger in size or volume or quantity |
Spanish | hincharse, hinchar, inflar | |
Catalan | inflar-se, inflar | |
Nouns | inflation | the act of filling something with air |
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