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発音

• enPR: ĭn-flāt'
  • (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA: /ɪnˈfleɪt/
  • (General Australian) IPA: /ɪnˈflæɪt/
  • (New Zealand) IPA: /ənˈflæɪt/
• 韻: -eɪt

動詞

inflate (third-person singular simple present inflates, present participle inflating, simple past and past participle inflated)

1. (transitive) To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally

   You inflate a balloon by blowing air into it.

   • 1782, John Scott of Amwell, An Essay on Painting:

     When passion's tumults in the bosom rise, / Inflate the features, and enrage the eyes.

2. (intransitive) To enlarge by filling with air (or a gas).

   The balloon will inflate if you blow into it.

3. (figurative) To swell; to puff up.

   to inflate somebody with pride or vanity

   • 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 137:

     [I]f they find / Some stain or blemish in a name of note, / Not grieving that their greatest are so small, / Inflate themselves with some insane delight, / And judge all nature from her feet of clay, […]

4. (transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously deflated.
5. (figurative, transitive) To represent something as being more important, better, or worse than it actually is; to exaggerate.

   Israel routinely claims that the Gaza Ministry of Health, which is run by Hamas, has a tendency to inflate the number of Palestinian casualties in the Gaza Strip.

反意語

• deflate

派生語

関連する語

• inflation

副詞

īnflātē (comparative īnflātius, superlative īnflātissimē)

1. haughtily, proudly, pompously

参照

• “inflate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “inflate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "inflate", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “inflate”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.