to balloon
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4.7
- verb
- /bəˈluːn/
:
dispararse
- If that happened, the deficit would balloon, just as it did under Mr. Bush.
- budgets have ballooned
- populations ballooned
- deficits ballooned
The pressure starts to build, your abdomen balloons out, and you become increasingly uncomfortable.
- The pressure starts to build, your abdomen balloons out, and you become increasingly uncomfortable.
- So then the problem would just balloon and I'd be so reliant on those on those sprays.
- This is where leadership prevails and this is where productivity is just really balloons upward.
- But anyway, yeah, so the amounts of all ballooned.
Examples
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I gotta watch myself or I balloon up like Shelley Winters.
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After she graduated, Paulus' loan total ballooned up to $52,000 after the six-month deferred payment period.
Blog text (22) -
Border security budgets have ballooned over the past decade, but the results are unclear.
Academic text (2011) -
I mean, his workload's just ballooned.
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By 1997, that figure had ballooned to more than ninety billion dollars.
Academic text (1999) -
Higher education tuition has been ballooning rapidly and unpredictably.
Academic text (2007) -
Still, the paparazzi problem continues to grow as the number of paparazzi has ballooned in the past decade.
Academic text (2013) -
The reported cost of the inherited project had by now ballooned from 132.8 million to 373.7 million.
Academic text (2012) -
Between that and a routine devoid of exercise, it wasn't long before Connie's weight ballooned.
Fiction book (1999) -
The costs of the project have ballooned unexpectedly this year, causing concern among the stakeholders.
Synonyms
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3.2
To become larger often by pressure or by soaking in water
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2.9
To fill something with air so it becomes larger and round
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5.3
To rise and move in large, wave-like shapes, like smoke or cloth
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2.7
To fill something with air or gas until it gets larger
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4.1
To swell or make part of the body larger
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4.9
To become swollen because of gas or fluid
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3.5
To make something larger by filling with air or pride
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3.2
Become larger and rounder because of pressure inside, injury, or a strong feeling
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4.4
To make something larger or more full, for example by filling it with air
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9.2
To become much larger, often by filling with air
Compounds
- Specialized
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4.6
A small balloon that rises high into the sky to collect weather data
A plant that lives for many years with white to pink puffed flowers in long clusters on upright stems
- Archaic
A rounded chair seat that looks like a small puffed cushion on 18th century chairs
- Archaic
A large balloon tied to the ground with cables to keep low enemy planes away in war
- Specialized
A small balloon released to find wind direction and speed high in the sky
- Archaic
A long thin bag filled with air used to fly above and watch, often in war
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Etymology
Balloon comes from the French ballon 'large ball' and the English word ball, which both suggest roundness and filling with air. When something 'balloons' it grows or 'swells' like a bag being filled, which is why we use the word for things that suddenly get much larger.