In*flat"ed (?), a. 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. Bot. Hollow and distended, as a perianth, corolla, nectary, or pericarp.
Martyn.
4. Distended or enlarged fictitiously; as, inflated prices, etc.
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