ballooning

About 0.25 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Growing rapidly as a balloon.

   The ballooning economy was out of control.

2. adjective Rising high in the air.

   The cricketer hit a ballooning shot for six runs.

3. noun The act of something that swells or expands.
4. noun The sport or hobby of flying in a hot-air balloon.

   When he retired, he took up ballooning.

5. noun The mechanical kiting used by spiders, mites, caterpillars, etc. to travel through the air.
6. verb present participle and gerund of balloon

Similar words

increasing blowing swell swelling bloating balloony fastgrowing bellying inflated blow-up

Often followed by

of and in degeneration out is to modes the

Word family

balloonings