ballooning
ballooning Lexical Profile
ballooning Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
Increasing rapidly in size, amount, or scale, often to an alarming or unmanageable level.
"The city council called an emergency meeting to address the ballooning budget deficit."
Swelling outward into a large, rounded, or billowing shape.
"She wore a vintage blouse with ballooning sleeves that gathered tightly at the wrists."
• noun
The activity, sport, or practice of flying in a hot-air or gas balloon.
"Calm early-morning winds provide the safest and most scenic conditions for hot-air ballooning."
A dispersal behavior used by spiderlings and certain small invertebrates, in which they release silk threads into the wind to be carried aloft through the air.
"Through ballooning, newly hatched spiderlings can travel hundreds of miles to colonize distant islands."