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puff up

English

  1. 🔊 make larger or distend
    “The estimates were puffed up”
  2. 🔊 to swell or cause to enlarge
    “Her faced puffed up from the drugs”
  3. 🔊 praise extravagantly
    “The critics puffed up this Broadway production”
  4. 🔊 become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
    “The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son”

Similar words

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