Synonyms for balloon
bəˈlunbal·loon

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1. balloonnoun

   Such an object designed to transport people through the air.

   Synonyms:
   hot-air balloon, montgolfier

2. balloonnoun

   A speech bubble.

   Synonyms:
   speech bubble, fumetto

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1. balloonnoun

   large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air

2. balloonverb

   small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck

3. balloonverb

   ride in a hot-air balloon

   "He tried to balloon around the earth but storms forced him to land in China"

   Synonyms:
   billow, inflate

4. balloon, inflate, billowverb

   become inflated

   "The sails ballooned"

   Synonyms:
   blow up, amplify, heave, inflate, wallow, expand, surge, billow

Matched Categories

1. • Expand
   • Fly
   • Lighter-than-air Craft

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1. balloonnoun

   Synonyms:
   aërostat

2. balloonnoun

   Synonyms:
   Montgolfier (hot-air balloon)

   Associated words:
   parachute, inflate, inflation, deflate, deflation, dirigible

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1. List of paraphrases for "balloon":

   ball, ballon, balloons, globe, flask, football, dirigible, zeppelin

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1. Irving Layton:

   Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

2. Travis Barker:

   In case of deep enteroscopy, like double balloon or single balloon scopes, [which] gets to a deep length [of the gastrointestinal tract] to check small bowel problems, the concept is same as pressure trauma [to cause pancreatitis].

3. William Sherman Pene du Bois:

   The best way of travel, however, if you aren't in any hurry at all, if you don't care where you are going, if you don't like to use your legs, if you don't want to be annoyed at all by any choice of directions, is in a balloon. In a balloon, you can decide only when to start, and usually when to stop. The rest is left entirely to nature.

4. Carolyn Brockington:

   The more newer approach is an endovascular approach using an angiogram. They go into the balloon itself and fill the balloon with small coil so blood can’t go into the balloon, and therefore the aneurysm deflates.

5. Sanita Belgrave:

   We think legacy is like a balloon being inflated and so we expect to see the results. Truthfully, legacy is more like the air going into the balloon, whether we witness the outcome or not, lives are being touched.