puff-up

Verbs

  • (v) make larger or distend
    • The estimates were puffed up
  • (v) to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"
    • puffed out chests
    puff out, puff, blow up,
  • (v) become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
    • The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son
    swell,
  • (v) praise extravagantly
    • The critics puffed up this Broadway production
    puff,

Synonyms

puff out puff blow up swell

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