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Verb
/bəˈlo͞on/,
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ballooned, past tense; ballooned, past participle; ballooning, present participle; balloons, 3rd person singular present;
  1. Swell out in a spherical shape; billow
    • - the trousers ballooned out below his waist
    • - the wind ballooned her sleeves
  2. (of an amount of money) Increase rapidly
    • - the company's debt has ballooned in the last five years
    • - ballooning government spending
  3. Swell dramatically in size or number
    • - the public payroll ballooned from about 27,000 people to about 66,000 people
  4. (of a person) Increase rapidly and dramatically in weight
    • - I had ballooned on the school's starchy diet
  5. Travel by hot-air balloon
    • - he is famous for ballooning across oceans
  1. (ballooning) flying in a balloon
  2. (Ballooning (spider)) Ballooning is a term used for the mechanical kiting that many, especially smaller species of spiders, as well as certain mites and some caterpillars use to disperse through the air. ...
  3. ("ballooning") Inflation of the foreskin with urine during urination. Perfectly normal in neonates unless it causes pain. Can then be treated without surgery.
  4. (Ballooning (floor)) also called "flying the floor" - the people taking the vinyl floor off the gym floor all start on one side and grab the edge, then run as fast as possible to the opposite wall... as the vinyl flies toward the line of people, they grab at it and pull it down into a big bunch. ...
  5. (Ballooning) A condition caused by phimosis in which urine cannot escape from the tip of the foreskin as fast as it is fed into it from the bladder. The foreskin thus swells up with the pressure of the urine inside it and the infant usually cries with the resultant pain. ...
  6. (Ballooning) A pillow effect created when air is trapped within the shrinking bag.
  7. (Ballooning) Prolonged operation under excessive loading, very abrupt application of load, or operating a torque converter at very high RPM may cause the shape of the converter's housing to be physically distorted due to internal pressure and/or the stress imposed by centrifugal force. ...
  8. (ballooning) excessive climbing or lifting of a shot beyond its normal trajectory, usually into the wind and usually causing the shot to fall short of the intended distance
  9. A shot pattern wherein a golf ball accelerates upwards to an unreasonably high trajectory.