BLOATS
/bləʊts/
8
Scrabble
10
WWF
B(3) L(1) O(1) A(1) T(1) S(1)
NWL/TWL ✓ Collins ✓ WWF ✓
Definition
/bləʊts/
noun
- Distention of the abdomen from death.
- Pathological overdistention of rumen with gas in a ruminant.
- Wasteful use of space or other resources.“Adding an e-mail feature to this simple text editor would be pointless bloat.”
- A worthless, dissipated fellow.
verb
- To cause to become distended.
- (veterinary medicine) to get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
- To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.
- To become distended; to swell up.
- To fill with vanity or conceit.
Source: Wiktionary
