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inflater
  • n  an air pump operated by hand to inflate something (as a tire)
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inflation
  • n  a general and progressive increase in prices
    in inflation everything gets more valuable except money
  • n  (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
  • n  lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
  • n  the act of filling something with air
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inflation rate
  • n  the rate of change of prices (as indicated by a price index) calculated on a monthly or annual basis
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inflation therapy
  • n  therapy in which water or oxygen or a drug is introduced into the respiratory tract with inhaled air
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inflationary spiral
  • n  an episode of inflation in which prices and wages increase at an increasing rate and currency rapidly loses value
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inflator
  • n  an air pump operated by hand to inflate something (as a tire)
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inflection
  • n  a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function
  • n  the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
  • n  deviation from a straight or normal course
  • n  a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified
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inflectional ending
  • n  an inflection that is added at the end of a root word
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inflectional morphology
  • n  the part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words
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inflectional suffix
  • n  an inflection that is added at the end of a root word
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inflexibility
  • n  a lack of physical flexibility
  • n  the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe
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inflexion
  • n  a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function
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infliction
  • n  the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo)
  • n  an act causing pain or damage
  • n  something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
    he's not a friend, he's an infliction
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