BALLOONING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ballooning mean? 

• BALLOONING (noun)
  The noun BALLOONING has 1 sense:

1. flying in a balloon

  Familiarity information: BALLOONING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BALLOONING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flying in a balloon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("ballooning" is a kind of...):

flight; flying (an instance of traveling by air)

 Context examples 

A brain aneurysm is an abnormal bulge or "ballooning" in the wall of an artery in the brain.

(Brain Aneurysm, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

A bulge or ballooning in the wall of the left ventricle of the heart.

(Left Ventricular Aneurysm, NCI Thesaurus)

An aneurysm is a bulge or "ballooning" in the wall of an artery.

(Aneurysms, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Bulging or ballooning in an area of an artery secondary to arterial wall weakening.

(Aneurysm, NCI Thesaurus)

The enormous gravitational force of such a massive body would accrete a gas envelope during formation, ballooning the planet to a gas giant the size of Neptune or even Jupiter.

(Astronomers confounded by massive rocky world, NASA)

Enlargement and ballooning of the vessel that supplies arterial blood to the abdomen, pelvis and legs.

(Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm, NCI Thesaurus)

It may lead to numerous complications, such as pseudomediastinum (air trapped in the chest between both lungs), perforation of the tympanic membrane (perforated eardrum), and even rupture of a cerebral aneurysm (ballooning blood vessel in the brain), they explain.

(Blocking A Sneeze, Man Ruptures Throat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)