unbloat

present singular third person unbloats · participle present unbloating · participle past unbloated · past unbloated · alternative un-bloat

1. transitiveTo relieve the bloatedness of.

   When we came back in the evening she would be bitter and spiteful and get bloated on purpose, and Cal and I would have to run her up and down until long after dark to unbloat her.

   1967, The American West, page 28

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   His twenty-four-year old^([sic]) son, a gym rat, had only last week told him about a bodybuilder who collapsed and died, on stage, after having ingested enough diuretics to unbloat a sick elephant.

   2011, David Harkness, Takedown, →ISBN, page 65

   There were a lot of dos and don'ts, with examples: 'get in, get out' (Raymond Carver), not what I'm doing here, obviously; 'unbloat your plot' (Colum McCann); 'never open a book with weather' (Elmore Leonard); 'keep your exclamation marks under control (Elmore Leonard again!); 'do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide' (Roddy Doyle).

   2019, Keggie Carew, Quicksand Tales: The Misadventures of Keggie Carew, →ISBN

2. intransitiveTo cease being bloated.

   Now, the unbearable heat broken, awnings unbloat, locusts crank up their battery-green volts and I climb the stairs

   1988, Crazyhorse - Issues 34-37, page 13

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   If you cinch her up like that she'll unbloat soon as you get on her, and throw you and roll the saddle down under her belly, then go wild.

   1995, Elizabeth Crook, Promised Lands: A Novel of the Texas Rebellion, →ISBN, page 30

   So for two days we sit right in front of the wood stove waiting for our bellies to unbloat so we can stuff them again.

   1996, Doug Robinson, A night on the ground, a day in the open, page 68