bloat vs increase

bloat

verb
  • To increase to an excessive amount. 

  • To get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant. 

  • To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell. 

  • To fill with vanity or conceit. 

  • To preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking. 

  • To cause to become distended. 

  • To become distended; to swell up. 

noun
  • Pathological overdistention of rumen with gas in a ruminant. 

  • Distention of the abdomen from death. 

  • Wasteful use of space or other resources. 

increase

verb
  • (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater. 

  • To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific. 

  • To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax. 

  • To make (a quantity, etc.) larger. 

noun
  • The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting). 

  • For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger 

  • Offspring, progeny 

  • An amount by which a quantity is increased. 

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