swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of domestic animals caused by excessive gas become bloated or swollen or puff up; "The dead man's stomach was bloated"
To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular tissue, producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied with softness
abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh"
If you describe an organization as bloated, you mean that it is larger and less efficient than it should be. its massive state apparatus and bloated bureaucracy
If someone's body or a part of their body is bloated, it is much larger than normal, usually because it has a lot of liquid or gas inside it. the bloated body of a dead bullock His face was bloated. = swollen
A swelling or expansion of body due to (a) over firing or irregular firing, (b) carbon trapped within a vitreous body, it's appearance is of a bubble formation within the body