puff up

Verb
  1. Make larger or distend (synset 200265464)
    "The estimates were puffed up"
    is a type of: amplify, blow up, expand, inflate - exaggerate or make bigger
  2. To swell or cause to enlarge (synset 200264568)
    "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests"
    is a type of: intumesce, swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce - expand abnormally
    same as: blow up, puff, puff out
  3. Become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger (synset 202602905)
    "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"
    is a type of: act, behave, do - behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
    same as: swell
  4. Praise extravagantly (synset 201067294)
    "The critics puffed up this Broadway production"
    is a type of: praise - express approval of
    same as: puff

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