inflating

Definitions

The act of filling something with air or gas to expand it.

The process of increasing the price, value, or quantity of something, often excessively.

The act of exaggerating or overstating the importance or size of something.

Examples

The company is inflating its projected earnings to attract more investors.

He spent the entire afternoon inflating balloons for his daughter's birthday party.

Synonyms

expanding swelling bloating distending enlarging increasing ballooning

Antonyms

shrinking deflating contracting diminishing reducing lessening collapsing