unbloat

English

Etymology

un- + bloat

Verb

unbloat (third-person singular simple present unbloats, present participle unbloating, simple past and past participle unbloated)

  1. (transitive) To relieve the bloatedness of.
    • 1967, The American West, page 28:
      When we came back in the evening she would be bitter and spiteful and get bloated on purpose, and Cal and I would have to run her up and down until long after dark to unbloat her.
    • 2011, David Harkness, Takedown, →ISBN, page 65:
      His twenty-four-year old son, a gym rat, had only last week told him about a bodybuilder who collapsed and died, on stage, after having ingested enough diuretics to unbloat a sick elephant.
    • 2019, Keggie Carew, Quicksand Tales: The Misadventures of Keggie Carew, →ISBN:
      There were a lot of dos and don'ts, with examples: 'get in, get out' (Raymond Carver), not what I'm doing here, obviously; 'unbloat your plot' (Colum McCann); 'never open a book with weather' (Elmore Leonard); 'keep your exclamation marks under control (Elmore Leonard again!); 'do not place a photgraph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide' (Roddy Doyle).
  2. (intransitive) To cease being bloated.
    • 1988, Crazyhorse - Issues 34-37, page 13:
      Now, the unbearable heat broken, awnings unbloat, locusts crank up their battery-green volts and I climb the stairs
    • 1995, Elizabeth Crook, Promised Lands: A Novel of the Texas Rebellion, →ISBN, page 30:
      If you cinch her up like that she'll unbloat soon as you get on her, and throw you and roll the saddle down under her belly, then go wild.
    • 1996, Doug Robinson, A night on the ground, a day in the open, page 68:
      So for two days we sit right in front of the wood stove waiting for our bellies to unbloat so we can stuff them again.

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