Usually means: Increased or expanded rapidly, significantly.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word ballooned:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. ballooned: Merriam-Webster
  2. ballooned: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ballooned: Vocabulary.com
  4. ballooned: Wordnik
  5. ballooned: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. ballooned: Wiktionary
  7. Ballooned, ballooned: Dictionary.com
  8. ballooned: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Ballooned: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. ballooned: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Ballooned: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. ballooned: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Ballooned: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ballooned: Legal dictionary
  2. ballooned: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ballooned: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ballooned: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. ballooned: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ballooned: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ballooned: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See balloon as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (balloon)

noun:  An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
noun:  Such an object as a child’s toy or party decoration.
noun:  Such an object designed to transport people or equipment through the air.
noun:  (medicine) A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
noun:  A speech bubble.
noun:  A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.
noun:  (architecture) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
noun:  (chemistry) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
noun:  (pyrotechnics) A bomb or shell.
noun:  (obsolete) A game played with a large inflated ball.
noun:  (engraving) The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
noun:  (slang) A woman's breast.
noun:  (slang) A small container for illicit drugs made from a condom or the finger of a latex glove, etc.
noun:  (finance) Synonym of balloon payment.
verb:  (intransitive) To increase or expand rapidly.
verb:  (intransitive) To go up or voyage in a balloon.
verb:  (transitive) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
verb:  (transitive) To inflate like a balloon.
verb:  (transitive, sports) To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.
verb:  (aviation) Of an aircraft: to plunge alternately up and down.
▸ Also see balloon


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