High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.
To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner.
To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad.
Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent.
Pretentiousness.
A claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality.
To apply tension to reinforcing strands before concrete is poured in.
To apply tension to an object before some other event or process.