Inflate

1. p. a. Blown in; inflated.
2. v. t. To swell or distend with air or gas; to dilate; to expand; to enlarge; as, to inflate a bladder; to inflate the lungs.
3. v. t. Fig.: To swell; to puff up; to elate; as, to inflate one with pride or vanity.
4. v. t. To cause to become unduly expanded or increased; as, to inflate the currency.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.