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gonflé in English:

1. billowed


The priest's cassock billowed gently in the wind.
Firefighters rushed in as smoke billowed out of the six-story building southeast of Seoul.

English word "gonflé"(billowed) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "Lady Luck" (Hugh Wiley)
Fiches du livre - "The Daft Days" (Neil Munro)
Fiches du livre - "Caribbee" (Thomas Hoover)
Fiches du livre - "The Alien" (Raymond F. Jones)
Fiches du livre - "Beach Scene" (Marshall King)

2. swelled


The cheers swelled to a roar.
The turnover on the Tokyo stock Exchange swelled to the year's record.
Thanks to a fundamental restructuring, our surplus has swelled three-fold.
A gust of wind swelled the sails.
The membership of the Boy Scout troop swelled.
In the 19th century, the number of immigrants swelled rapidly.
Our surplus has swelled by nearly ten percent in this quarter.

English word "gonflé"(swelled) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "Tessa 1901" (Louis Becke)
Fiches du livre - "Air Monster" (Edwin Green)
Fiches du livre - "Cottage Poems" (Patrick Bronte)
Fiches du livre - "Writ in Barracks" (Edgar Wallace)
Fiches du livre - "The Sea Fogs" (Robert Louis Ste...

3. puffed


He puffed his cigar
I can't play any further - I'm puffed!

English word "gonflé"(puffed) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "The Sheep and Lamb" (Thomas Mil...
Fiches du livre - "Satellite System" (Horace Brown...
Fiches du livre - "The Golden Goose Book" (L. Lesl...
Fiches du livre - "Publicity Stunt" (Robert Moore ...
Fiches du livre - "The Ordeal of Colonel Johns" (G...

4. inflated


The inflated costs of living made them look for different accomodation.
inflated prices
The frog inflated himself more and more, until finally he burst.
The severe housing shortage is partly to blame for the inflated rents.

English word "gonflé"(inflated) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "A Balloon Ascension at Midnight...
Fiches du livre - "The Great American Pie Company"...
Fiches du livre - "Balloons, Airships, and Flying ...
Fiches du livre - "The Ohio Journal of Science, Vo...
Fiches du livre - "Two New Moles (Genus Scalopus) ...

other words beginning with "G"

glisser in English
gomme in English
gonfler in English
gorge in English
gourmand in English
goutte in English