bloat

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To cause to swell up or inflate, as with liquid or gas.
• intransitive verb To cure (fish) by soaking in brine and half-drying in smoke.
• intransitive verb To become swollen or inflated.
• noun A swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of cattle and domestic animals that is caused by excessive gas formation following fermentation of ingested watery legumes or green forage.
• noun An excess or surfeit, as of employees, expenses, or procedures.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Cured by smoking: as, a bloat herring.
• See bloater.
• To cure by smoking, as herrings. Formerly spelled blote.
• Puffed; swollen; turgid: as, “the bloat king,”
• To make turgid or swollen, as with air, water, etc.; cause to swell, as with a dropsical humor; inflate; puff up; hence, make vain, conceited, etc.
• To become swollen; be puffed out or dilated; dilate.
• noun The bloater whitefish, Argyrosomus prognathus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb 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.
• transitive verb To inflate; to puff up; to make vain.
• noun Slang A term of contempt for a worthless, dissipated fellow.
• transitive verb To dry (herrings) in smoke. See blote.
• intransitive verb To grow turgid as by effusion of liquid in the cellular tissue; to puff out; to swell.
• adjective rare Bloated.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb to cause to become distended
• verb to fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell
• verb to fill with vanity or conceit
• verb to preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking, (as in bloated herring).
• noun distention of the abdomen from death

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb become bloated or swollen or puff up
• verb make bloated or swollen
• noun swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of domestic animals caused by excessive gas