balloon

• accelerate
• accumulate
• airship
• appreciate
• bag
• beetle
• belly
• billow
• bladder
• blimp
• blow up
• boom
• bourgeon
• build up
• bulge
• bulk
• bunch
• burgeon
• climb
• crescendo
• crest
• dilate
• dirigible
• distend
• dome
• elongate
• enlarge
• escalate
• expand
• extend
• gain
• heighten
• increase
• inflate
• intensify
• jump
• jut
• lengthen
• mount
• multiply
• mushroom
• overhang
• peak
• poke
• pooch
• pouch
• pout
• project
• proliferate
• protrude
• puff out
• redouble
• rise
• rocket
• roll up
• skyrocket
• snowball
• spread
• stand out
• start
• stick out
• stretch
• surge
• swell
• wax
• zeppelin

• abridge
• cave in
• compress
• condense
• constrict
• contract
• decrease
• diminish
• dwindle
• lessen
• lower
• recede
• shrink
• wane

• noun
  1. An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
  2. Such an object as a child’s toy or party decoration.
  3. Such an object designed to transport people through the air.
  4. A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
  5. A speech bubble.
  6. A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.
  7. A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
  8. A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
  9. A bomb or shell.
  10. A game played with a large inflated ball.
  11. (engraving) The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
  12. A woman's breast.
  13. A small container for illicit drugs made from a condom or the finger of a latex glove, etc.
  14. An unusually large payment due at the end of the term of a loan agreement.
• verb
  1. To increase or expand rapidly.
  2. To go up or voyage in a balloon.
  3. To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
  4. To inflate like a balloon.
  5. To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.

• Balloon rides offer a unique perspective of the landscape from high above.
• The children were delighted as they watched the colorful balloon float into the sky.
• She tied a note to the string of the balloon before releasing it into the air.
• The party decorations included a large, helium-filled balloon bouquet.
• As the hot air filled the fabric, the balloon slowly began to rise from the ground.

gain

waft

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bag

bagged

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