English-Italian translations for bloat

• gonfiare
  Non ci proponiamo affatto di avvallare i tentativi di gonfiare l'amministrazione ma in questo ambito occorre intervenire a colmare delle carenze. We do not seek to advocate the creation of a bloated bureaucracy, but there is some catching up to be done in this area.
• gonfiarsi

Definition of bloat

• to cause to become distended
• to fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell
• to fill with vanity or conceit
• to preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking
• Distention of the abdomen from death
• Wasteful use of space or other resources
• A worthless, dissipated fellow
• bloated

Examples

• bloated herring
• Adding an e-mail feature to this simple text editor would be pointless bloat.

Related words

• bloating
• bloated
• bloatware
• bloater
• bloated bureaucracy