Meaning

6 senses
  1. (intransitive)To increase or expand rapidly.

    His stomach ballooned from eating such a large meal.

    Prices will balloon if we don't act quickly.

    увеличиватьсяuveličivatʹsja, раздуватьсяrazduvatʹsja, растиrasti

  2. (intransitive)To go up or voyage in a balloon.

    ride in a hot-air balloon

  3. (transitive)To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.

  4. (transitive)To inflate like a balloon.

  5. (transitive)To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.

  6. Of an aircraft: to plunge alternately up and down.

Examples

273 sentences
  1. Blow these balloons up for me.

    Надуй мені ці кульки. — deniko

  2. Tom blew up a balloon and gave it to Mary.

    Том надув кульку й дав її Мері. — deniko

  3. Have you ever ridden in a hot air balloon?

    Ви колись літали на повітряній кулі? — Internecivus

    ruВы когда-либо летали на воздушном шаре? — al_ex_an_der

    deBist du schon einmal in einem Heißluftballon gefahren? — Manfredo

  4. Tom blew up the balloon.

    Том надув кульку. — deniko

    ruТом надул шарик. — marafon

    deTom blies den Ballon auf. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. Tom blew the balloon up.

    Том надув кульку. — deniko

    ruТом надул шарик. — marafon

    deTom blies den Ballon auf. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

1 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
To increase or expand rapidly:

Origin

First use appears c. 1591, "a game played with a large, inflated leather ball" (possibly v

First use appears c. 1591, "a game played with a large, inflated leather ball" (possibly via Middle French ballon) from Italian pallone (“large ball”) from palla (“ball”), from Lombardic *palla. The Northern Italian form, balla (“ball-shaped bundle”), today a doublet, likely derived from Old French balle, from Frankish *balla (“ball”), and may have influenced the spelling of this word. Both Germanic words are from Proto-Germanic *ballô (“ball”), *balluz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoln- (“bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, swell, inflate”). Akin to Old High German ballo, bal (“ball”), (German Ballen (“bale”); Ball "ball"). Doublet of ballon. More at ball.

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Forms

balloons, ballooning, ballooned, ballooned
Base formballoon · to balloon
3rd person singularballoons
Present participleballooning
Past simpleballooned
Past participleballooned

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyballoon
he, she, itballoons

Past simpleLesson

all personsballooned

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave ballooned
he, she, ithas ballooned

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill balloon

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

8 related words

Collocations

5 patterns
  • hot air balloon
  • blew the balloons
  • up the balloons
  • the balloons up
  • air balloon

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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