1. Fill with gas or air
   "inflate a balloon";
   - blow up
    
2. Become inflated
   "The sails inflated";
   - balloon, billow
    
3. Exaggerate or deliberately make something appear more important or serious than it really is
   "The charges were inflated"; "They inflated their sales figures to impress investors";
   - blow up, expand, amplify
    
4. Cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit
   "The war inflated the economy"
    
5. Increase prices artificially or unreasonably
   "Sellers inflated the prices during the shortage"

Derived forms: inflating, inflates, inflated

Type of: alter, change, expand, increase, modify

Antonym: deflate

Encyclopedia: Inflate