v.
   - expand or cause to expand by filling with air or gas.
 - increase by a large or excessive amount. 
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[usu. as adj. inflated]
 exaggerate.
 - bring about inflation of (a currency) or in (an economy).
 
 
  Derivative
  
    - inflatedly adv.
  - inflater 
(also inflator)
 n.
 
   
  Etymology
  ME: from L. inflat-, inflare ‘blow into’, from in- ‘into’ + flare ‘to blow’.