INFLATING Synonyms: 105 Similar and Opposite Words

inflating

verb

present participle of inflate

as in increasing

to make greater in size, amount, or number Check that you have inflated your tires to the recommended pressure. Some sellers were inflating their prices by as much as 500 per cent.

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as in accelerating

to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number Airbags are designed to inflate automatically on impact.

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Recent Examples of inflating Marx wants to slash red tape on home building and roll back cost-inflating mandates. — Jeff Gurney, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026 That promise, however, is exactly what is inflating the bubble. — Ruchir Sharma, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2026 He could be seen wearing a Whole Foods bag with eyeholes on his head, or inflating Minion holiday decorations to block the cars’ path. — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026 The United States faces a $40 trillion debt crisis that is pushing up interest rates on mortgages and auto loans, inflating the cost of borrowing and threatening job growth. — Warren Gorlick, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2026 Kellermeyer is one of a number of companies referenced in lawsuits filed in recent months that accuse funds managed by some of Wall Street’s biggest names of inflating their marks, often to increase their own payouts. — Ellen Dimauro, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026 This confirms a scenario previously suggested by JPMorgan analysts regarding inflating the debt away. — Billy Bambrough, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026 By falsely inflating their earnings, Man City’s ownership could splash loads of cash on the best players in the world. — Matt Piper, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026 Beyond natural gas, surging diesel prices are further inflating transit and logistics costs for businesses and residents alike. — CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026

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This increasing self-reliance has an extra benefit in the midst of a grueling war.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026
Despite this, national reports indicate continued use of performance- and appearance-enhancing drugs, and increasing interest in them.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of increasing

Verb

Leading equipment manufacturers, including Caterpillar, Komatsu, Liebherr, and SANY, are accelerating efforts to deploy zero-emission haul fleets across the industry.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026
That 12-month number would signal that the rate of price growth is accelerating and moving further from the Federal Reserve's goal of 2%.

— Alex Harring, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of accelerating

Verb

Those officers were not wearing body cameras, raising questions about why the agency still hadn't gotten the cameras out to officers in the field.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026
Similar federal lists in other states have proved highly inaccurate, raising concerns that eligible voters could be disenfranchised.

— Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of raising

Verb

That law included provisions dramatically expanding the scope of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2026
Altogether, Google is expanding automatic tracking support to cover more than 100 different exercises and sports, up from 10 previously.

— Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of expanding

Verb

Noah Seelam | Afp | Getty Images Fund outflows and a rising energy bill are expected to keep putting pressure on India's rupee, even as the central bank works to slow depreciation.

— Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026
John Fogerty, rising singer-songwriter Emma Ogier, and others are slated to open on select dates.

— Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of rising

Verb

Other possible signs include swelling of part or all of the breast, breast or nipple pain and nipple discharge other than breast milk.

— Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2026
Since the late nineteenth century, raw white-lead was known to pose a substantial health risk to those exposed to it, prompting symptoms such as swelling of the brain, epileptic convulsions, paralysis, severe colic, and death.

— Wendy S. Walters, Architectural Digest, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of swelling

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Island is also navigating an increasingly crowded competitive landscape that includes pure-play incumbents such as Palo Alto Networks and a roster of startups racing to win a slice of the ballooning AI security market.

— Samantha Subin, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2026
In places at low to moderate risk of fire, along the edges of flat valleys and lazy hills, growth in the FAIR Plan is ballooning, and it is being used to underwrite new suburban development.

— Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of ballooning

Verb

We were all riveted by the image of a glass of red wine undisturbed by a woman jumping next to it on the bed and the idea of sleeping on memory foam originally developed by NASA, now available to us.

— Jaklin Romine Oct. 15, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
Shares are jumping Thursday as part of the market’s rotation into defensive names.

— Alexa LoMonaco,Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026

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