GRE vocabulary
balloon
to swell or puff out, or to increase rapidly in amount or size
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In a sentence
Balloon in a sentence
Here is an example sentence showing balloon in a sentence.
The project costs ballooned well beyond the original budget.
Synonyms
expandswellinflatesurge
Antonyms
shrinkdeflatecontract
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Common questions
Questions about “balloon”
Balloon (verb) means to swell or puff out, or to increase rapidly in amount or size
Here is balloon used in an example sentence: "The project costs ballooned well beyond the original budget."
Common synonyms for balloon include expand, swell, inflate, surge.
Antonyms of balloon include shrink, deflate, contract.
Balloon is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.
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