Inflation

1. n. Undue expansion or increase, from overissue; — said of currency.
2. n. The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement.
3. n. The state of being puffed up, as with pride; conceit; vanity.

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.