Usually means: Increase the volume or amount.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word inflate:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. inflate: Merriam-Webster
  2. inflate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inflate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inflate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inflate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inflate, inflate: Wordnik
  7. inflate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inflate: Wiktionary
  9. inflate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inflate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inflate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. inflate: Dictionary.com
  13. inflate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Inflate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. inflate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. inflate: Rhymezone
  17. inflate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. inflate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. inflate: FreeDictionary.org
  20. inflate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. inflate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. inflate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. inflate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. inflate: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. inflate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. inflate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inflate: Idioms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See inflated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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