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inflated

 adjective
     
Related topics: Business
in‧flat‧ed
1B inflated prices, amounts etc are high and unreasonable
grossly/vastly/hugely inflated
company directors on grossly inflated salaries
2 inflated ideas, opinions etc about someone or something make them seem better, more important etc than they really are:
He has a very inflated opinion of himself.
3 filled with air or gas
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