Definition of "bloat" []

• To cause to swell up or inflate, as with liquid or gas. (verb-transitive)
• To cure (fish) by soaking in brine and half-drying in smoke. (verb-transitive)
• To become swollen or inflated: "Government had bloated out of control” ( Lance Morrow). (verb-intransitive)
• 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: corporate bloat. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Maybe it's time for a split of the code into two paths, one for those who think bloat is good, and one for us that looks for speed."
• "Outside of the ridiculous privacy concerns here (yeah, yeah, I'm sure you can turn the function off), this type of bloat is going to be one of the many nails in Firefox's coffin, I'm afraid."
• "Coughing bloat from the towers pushes out heat into the sky, lays labor on the air."