Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inflate.(verb)
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Use "inflates" in a sentence
"You know, for instance, this is a beautiful container for asthma medicine that kind of inflates itself when it's time for you to take the medicine."
"Of course, he has 28 strikeouts and zero walks against opposing pitchers, so that kind of inflates the numbers a little bit, but still, you'd think that someone like, I dunno, San Diego could've used him for nothing."
""spends our way out" of this mess as it "inflates" the battered credit markets ...... putting us even further into debt."