puff up

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verb

1. make larger or distend (Freq. 1)
- The estimates were puffed up
• Hypernyms:
inflate, blow up, expand, amplify
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
2. to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs" (Freq. 1)
- puffed out chests
• Syn:
puff, blow up, puff out
• Derivationally related forms:
puffer (for: puff)
• Hypernyms:
swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- Did his feet puff up?
3. become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
- The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son
• Syn:
swell
• Hypernyms:
act, behave, do
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
4. praise extravagantly
- The critics puffed up this Broadway production
• Syn:
puff
• Derivationally related forms:
puff (for: puff)
• Hypernyms:
praise
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something