[{"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to expand or distend, as with air, water, etc.; cause to swell:Overeating bloated their bellies.Synonyms: balloon , enlarge , inflate , swell", "to puff up; make vain or conceited:The promotion has bloated his ego to an alarming degree.", "to cure (fishes) as bloaters ."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to become swollen; be puffed out or dilated:The carcass started to bloat."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["Also called hoven .Veterinary Pathology.(in cattle, sheep, and horses) a distention of the rumen or paunch or of the large colon by gases of fermentation, caused by eating ravenously of green forage, especially legumes.", "a person or thing that is bloated .", "bloater(defs1, 2) bloater(defs1, 2)."]}]