v.
   - expand or cause to expand by filling with air or gas.
- increase by a large or excessive amount. ▸
[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’.