Vad betyder inflate på svenska och vad är definitionen av inflate?

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inflate betydelse and definition

0 to make something increase in size by filling it with air:
- He inflated the balloons with helium.
- We watch the hot-air balloon slowly inflate.
1 to make something larger or more important:
- They inflated their part in the rescue every time they told the story.
2 to cause an object to increase in size and shape by filling it with air or gas, or (of an object) to become larger as a result of this process:
- [ T ] to inflate balloons
- [ I ] Air bags in cars are designed to inflate automatically on impact.
3 to make a number or value higher or greater than it should be, or to make something seem more important than it really is:
- Company officials misled the public in order to inflate the value of the company’s stock.
- The story was inflated by the media.
4 to increase the value or price of something, or to become more valuable or expensive:
- People who bought homes years ago have seen the values inflate and property taxes rise with the inflation.
- Weak export sales have helped to inflate inventories.
5 to make a number, price, or value higher than it should be or than is reasonable, sometimes in order to deceive people:
- Insurers fear that people will make up or inflate claims.

The balloon catheter was advanced over the guide wire, inflated with dilute contrast to a pressure of 3-4 atmospheres, and deflated immediately.
The high prevalence of simple phobia has not inflated the overall prevalence of mental disorder since all of these patients also had another mental disorder.
The univariate heritability estimate is thus likely to be inflated at this time point, assuming that the true litter variance component is greater than zero.
As the effort to act collectively encountered frustration, the energy tilted from idealist education and corporatist participation towards spectatorship, buttressed by inflating rhetoric.
Each sample was put in a self-sealing plastic bag, which slightly inflated and contained a piece of paper towel to reduce condensation.
Statutory organisations and funding bodies have to recognise that such costs are not ' inflated ' or ' excessive ' but rather legitimate and necessary.
In lateral view, larvae slightly and almost symmetrically vaulted; glabella and protopygidial axis inflated.
Occipital ring weakly inflated; medial part transversely rectangular with straight, well-incised occipital furrow.