Thesaurus
balloon
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of BALLOON
1
to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number <the number of students who stay home sick balloons every winter>
Synonyms accelerate, accumulate, appreciate, balloon, boom, build up, burgeon (also bourgeon), climb, enlarge, escalate, expand, gain, mount, multiply, mushroom, proliferate, rise, roll up, snowball, spread, swell, wax
2
to extend outward beyond a usual point <the paper bag ballooned and blew away as the wind lifted it skyward>
Synonyms bag, balloon, beetle, belly, billow, bunch, jut, overhang, poke, pooch [chiefly dialect], pouch, pout, project, protrude, stand out, start, stick out, swell
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