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puff up definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: make larger or distend; "The estimates were puffed up"
2: to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests" [syn: puff, puff up, blow up, puff out]
3: become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son" [syn: swell, puff up]
4: praise extravagantly; "The critics puffed up this Broadway production" [syn: puff, puff up]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If part of your body puffs up as a result of an injury or illness, it becomes swollen. Her body bloated and puffed up till pain seemed to burst out through her skin. = swell PHRASAL VERB: V P see also puffed up

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

Inflate, swell, blow up.

Moby Thesaurus

add to, adulate, aggrandize, amplify, apotheosize, augment, balloon, belaud, bepraise, bless, bloat, blow up, boast of, brag about, broaden, build, build up, bulk, bulk out, celebrate, crescendo, cry up, deify, develop, dilate, distend, emblazon, enlarge, eulogize, exalt, expand, extend, extol, fill out, flatter, glorify, greaten, hero-worship, hike, hike up, huff, idolize, increase, inflate, laud, lionize, magnify, make much of, overpraise, panegyrize, pay tribute, porter aux nues, praise, puff, pump, pump up, raise, rarefy, salute, snowball, stretch, sufflate, swell, trumpet, tumefy, up, widen