Usually means: Increases or expands in size.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. inflates: Merriam-Webster
  2. inflates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. inflates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Inflates, inflates: Wordnik
  5. inflates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. inflates: Wiktionary
  7. inflates: Dictionary.com
  8. inflates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. inflates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inflates: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inflates: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inflates: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (inflate)

verb:  (transitive) To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally
verb:  (intransitive) To enlarge by filling with air (or a gas).
verb:  (figurative) To swell; to puff up.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously deflated.
verb:  (figurative, transitive) To represent something as being more important, better, or worse than it actually is; to exaggerate.
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