Usually means: Swelling due to excessive fluid.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. bloats: Merriam-Webster
  2. bloats: Collins English Dictionary
  3. bloats: Vocabulary.com
  4. bloats: Wordnik
  5. bloats: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. bloats: Wiktionary
  7. bloats: Dictionary.com
  8. bloats: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. bloats: Encyclopedia

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

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bloat)

verb:  To cause to become distended.
verb:  (intransitive, veterinary medicine) To get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
verb:  To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.
verb:  (intransitive) To become distended; to swell up.
verb:  To fill with vanity or conceit.
verb:  (dated) To preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking.
verb:  To increase to an excessive amount.
noun:  Distention of the abdomen from death.
noun:  (veterinary medicine) Pathological overdistention of rumen with gas in a ruminant.
noun:  (figurative) Wasteful use of space or other resources.
noun:  (derogatory, slang, dated) A worthless, dissipated fellow.
adjective:  (obsolete) bloated.
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