inflating Definition

inflate
verb inflated, inflating

tr & intr
1. To swell or cause something to swell or expand with air or gas.

Thesaurus: amplify, expand, increase, swell, enlarge, balloon, bloat, blow out.
2a. econ.
To increase (prices generally) by artificial means;
2b. econ.
To increase (the volume of money in circulation). Compare deflate, reflate.
3. To exaggerate the importance or value of something.

Thesaurus: exaggerate, aggrandize, bombast, boost, puff up.
4. To raise (the spirits, etc); to elate.

Derivative: inflated

Said of prices: artificially increased to a high level.

Said especially of language or opinions: showing too great a sense of the speaker's importance; pompous.
Thesaurus: exaggerated, overblown, grandiloquent, pompous, turgid, ostentatious, bombastic, puffed up.

Blown up or filled with air or gas; distended.

Etymology: 16c: from Latin inflare, inflatum to blow into.