Definitions for bloats

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bloats bloat

Spelling: [bloht]

IPA: /bloʊt/

Bloats is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 158 anagrams from letters in bloats (ablost).

Definitions for bloats

noun

1. Also called hoven. Veterinary Pathology. (in cattle, sheep, and horses) a distention of the rumen or paunch or of the large colon by gases of fermentation, caused by eating ravenously of green forage, especially legumes.
2. a person or thing that is bloated.
3. bloater (defs 1, 2).

verb (used with object)

1. to expand or distend, as with air, water, etc.; cause to swell:
2. to puff up; make vain or conceited:
3. to cure (fishes) as bloaters.

verb (used without object)

1. to become swollen; be puffed out or dilated:

Origin of bloats

1250-1300; earlier bloat (adj.) soft, puffy, Middle English blout Old Norse blautr wet, soft

Examples for bloats

Should you be still anxious to arrive at bloat, you cannot do better than——'

In the new, leaner strategy, any bloat has to go, even if it means reversing on a major earlier decision.

On these bad days, I step out of bed and look in the mirror at the bloat in my face.

Is this a healthy fat which we are putting on him, or is it bloat?

The consekence was, he began to swell an bloat like a mad porkepine.

Part of the decomposition process causes bodies to bloat and blood to sometimes seep from the mouth.

An he swaggers around me and thinks hes a boss man because he licked that bloat Sheedy.

The fly had pierced a blood vessel and would now bloat itself with blood.

But her distress was still very great, and her feet soon began to turn purple, and she began to bloat in her stomach and bowels.

How ruthlessly many of them have been turned out of office that some bloat of a politician might take their place!