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ballooningverbpresent participle of balloon to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or numberthe number of students who stay home sick balloons every winter accelerating, accumulating, appreciating, booming, building up, burgeoning(also bourgeoning), climbing, enlarging, escalating, expanding, gaining, increasing, mounting, multiplying, mushrooming, proliferating, rising, rolling up, snowballing, spreading, swelling, waxing jumping, rocketing, skyrocketing, surgingheightening, intensifying, redoublingblowing up, bulking, distending, inflating, puffing (up)crescendoing, cresting, peaking contracting, decreasing, diminishing, dwindling, lessening, receding, waning to extend outward beyond a usual pointthe paper bag ballooned and blew away as the wind lifted it skyward bagging, beetling, bellying, billowing, bulging, bunching, jutting, overhanging, poking, pooching(chiefly dialect), pouching, pouting, projecting, protruding, standing out, starting, sticking out, swelling domingblowing up, inflatingdilating, distending, expandingmushrooming, snowballingelongating, extending, lengthening, stretching compressing, condensing, constricting, contracting, shrinking in 1784 |