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- verb To
inflate excessively; to provide too muchinflation
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Examples
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Mebbe a good equation can size-out the republican voter registration totals, the same way we overinflate our rally numbers.
Think Progress » VIDEO: The Extreme, Violent Rhetoric Of GOP Lawmakers 2010
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Bearing all that in mind, it would be a real shipwreck for an overwrought orchestrator to take the graceful skiff depicted on the cover of "Maiden Voyage" and overinflate it into a bulky ocean liner.
Piano Perspectives, Visions of Vaudeville Will Friedwald 2011
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Fill the ball until your knees and hips are at or above a 90-degree angle 4. Do not overinflate the ball.
Six Weeks to Sleeveless and Sexy JJ Virgin 2010
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Now, from what she was telling me is that some doctors overinflate their costs because they know that some people won't pay, and although most insurance companies won't pay the entire cost of care, they will pay a good portion of it.
Health Care Commentaries, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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BSNYC, I don't want to overinflate your ego, but you hit the ball out of the man-sack in a good way with this post.
Having It All: Long Time, Tall Order BikeSnobNYC 2009
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And plz to remember this time not to overinflate her.
PARTNERSHIP - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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"The job of the F.deral Reserve is to take away the punch bowl just when the party starts getting interesting." -- on the F.d's need to raise rates when the economy starts to overinflate Arthur F. Burns Tenure:
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So Al took the car to a mechanic and had him overinflate the tires and then tell the police that the speedometer had been reading too low as a result.
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The other thing you want to keep in mind, don't overinflate your tires.
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Sometimes I even way overinflate the title to a toungue-in-cheek post, just for the humor effect.
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