Meaning

1 senses

  1. To inflate excessively; to provide too much inflation

    The tires had been overinflated, leading to a blowout.

Examples

2 sentences

  1. A narcissistic individual has an overinflated ego.

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  2. You have an overinflated view of your own abilities.

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Forms

overinflates, overinflating, overinflated, overinflated
Base formoverinflate · to overinflate
3rd person singularoverinflates
Present participleoverinflating
Past simpleoverinflated
Past participleoverinflated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyoverinflate
he, she, itoverinflates

Past simpleLesson

all personsoverinflated

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill overinflate

Word family

1 related words
Derivedunderinflation

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
overheadoverhearB2overheatoverkilloverlapB2
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