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Inflated

1. Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas.

2. Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an inflated style. Inflated and astrut with self-conceit. (Cowper)

3. (Science: botany) hollow and distended, as a perianth, corolla, nectary, or pericarp.

4. Distended or enlarged fictitiously; as, inflated prices, etc.