balloon
/bəˈlun/ verb C2- To increase or expand rapidly. · His stomach ballooned from eating such a large meal.· Prices will balloon if we don't act quickly.
- To go up or voyage in a balloon.
- To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
- To inflate like a balloon.
- To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.
- Of an aircraft: to plunge alternately up and down.
He/she/it balloons · Past ballooned · Past participle ballooned · -ing form ballooning
Verb forms
- Base form
- balloon
- He/she/it
- balloons
- Past
- ballooned
- Past participle
- ballooned
- -ing form
- ballooning
From the library
We saw a man go up in a balloon.
I’d love to go up in a balloon, Marilla; it would be simply thrilling; and we saw a man selling fortunes.
Dorothy felt as if she were going up in a balloon.
“A man who goes up in a balloon on circus day, so as to draw a crowd of people together and get them to pay to see the circus,” he explained.
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