inflate

/ɪnˈfleɪt/

意味: 膨らませる、誇張する

例文: Momo inflated her cheeks like a balloon.
　　  モモは風船のように頬を膨らませた。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: inflate a balloon(風船を膨らませる), inflate a tire(タイヤを膨らませる), inflate prices(価格を引き上げる)

定義: 空気やガスを入れて物を膨らませること。例えば、風船やタイヤに空気を入れて大きくすること。また、価格や数字を不当に高くすることも意味する。

inflateは約1,000,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Verb: exaggerate or make bigger
Verb: fill with gas or air
Verb: cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit
Verb: increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value
Verb: become inflated

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

Please inflate the balloon before the party starts.(パーティーが始まる前に風船を膨らませてください。)
They inflate the tires to the correct pressure.(彼らはタイヤを適正な空気圧に膨らませます。)
The company plans to inflate prices next month.(会社は来月価格を引き上げる予定です。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Verb: The charges were inflated
Verb: inflate a balloons
Verb: The war inflated the economy
Verb: inflate the currency
Verb: The sails ballooned

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): amplify, balloon, billow, blow up, expand, inflate

Antonyms(反意語): deflate

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): change, expand, increase, reduce

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): accelerate, acerbate, acetylate, achromatize, activate, adjust, affect, age, alchemize, alcoholize, alkalinize, allegorize, alter, americanize, angulate, animize, antiquate, antique, archaize, arterialize, ash, assimilate, augment, automatize, awaken, balloon, barb, barbarize, bestialize, better, blind, blister, blow up, blunt, blur, boil, boost, break, break down, brighten, bring, brutalize, bubble, build up, calcify, camp, capture, cause to sleep, centralize, change intensity, change taste, charge, chasten, check, circularize, civilize, clarify, classicize, clean, clear, clot, cloud, coarsen, cohere, color, commercialize, communize, commute, complicate, condense, confuse, constitutionalize, contaminate, conventionalize, convert, cook, cool, corrupt, counterchange, crack, cry, customize, damage, darken, de-emphasize, deaden, deaminate, decarboxylate, decelerate, decentralize, decimalize, decorate, decrease, decrepitate, deflate, deform, dehydrogenate, demagnetize, demist, democratize, demonize, demulsify, demythologize, denationalize, denaturalize, denature, deodorize, depersonalize, depolarize, desensitize, destabilize, detransitivize, devalue, develop, devilize, digitize, dinge, dirty, disable, discolor, disharmonize, disintegrate, disorder, disqualify, dissimilate, dissolve, diversify, dizzy, domesticate, dope, downsize, draw, dry, dull, dynamize, ease up, edit, embrittle, empty, emulsify, enable, end, enlarge, equal, eroticize, escalate, estrange, etherealize, etiolate, europeanize, evaporate, even, excite, extend, exteriorize, fatten, feminize, fertilize, fill, fix, flatten, flocculate, freeze, frenchify, full, gelatinize, glamorize, glorify, habituate, harmonize, harshen, heat, heighten, hue, humanize, humble, hydrogenate, immaterialize, immortalize, inactivate, incandesce, increase, indispose, industrialize, inflate, inform, inseminate, insulate, intensify, internationalize, introvert, invalidate, invert, iodinate, ionate, islamize, isomerize, kite, laicize, legitimate, lend, lengthen, liberalize, lifehack, lift, liquefy, loosen, louden, lower, lubricate, magnetize, make, mark, masculinize, maximize, mechanize, militarize, mince, mix, morph, muddy, multiply, mythologize, nationalize, naturalize, nazify, neutralize, nick, normalize, obfuscate, obscure, occidentalize, officialize, opacify, opalize, opsonize, orientalize, ossify, outmode, oxidize, oxygenize, paganize, pall, parallel, patent, personalize, piggyback, plasticize, poison, polarize, politicize, port, professionalize, proof, prostrate, purify, put, quench, radicalize, raise, rarefy, rationalize, recombine, recommend, reconstruct, refine, reflate, reform, refresh, regenerate, relax, remodel, restore, retrench, rev up, revolutionize, right, ripen, romanticize, round off, rusticate, sanitize, saponify, saturate, sauce, schematize, scramble, sensitize, sentimentalize, set, sexualize, shade, shake, shallow, shape, sharpen, shave, shift, shorten, simplify, slash, slenderize, smut, sober, socialize, soften, solemnize, solvate, spice, spike, spill, sputter, stabilize, stain, steepen, stiffen, still, straighten, strengthen, string, substitute, subtract, suburbanize, supercharge, supple, suspend, sweeten, swell, switch, symmetrize, synchronize, take away, tame, tender, tense, territorialize, thicken, thin, thin out, think, tighten, tone down, touch, transaminate, transfigure, transform, transitivize, translate, transmute, transpose, turn, turn back, uglify, unclutter, uniformize, unite, unsanctify, unscramble, unsex, untie, untune, up, urbanize, validate, variegate, vascularize, ventilate, verbify, vesiculate, visualize, vitalize, vitrify, vivify, volatilize, vulgarise, warm, weaken, weaponize, wet, widen, worsen

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): billow, puff up, reflate

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: expansive, inflatable, inflater, inflation, inflator

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞): in

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

英検1級

TOEIC500

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書):

Movies(映画): Finding Nemo

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: