inflate
/ɪnˈfleɪt/ v [T] (MAKE GREATER)Definition
› to make a number or value higher or greater than it should be, or to make something seem more important than it really is: Company officials misled the public in order to inflate the value of the company’s stock. The story was inflated by the media.
(Definition of inflate v (MAKE GREATER) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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