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puff up - definition and meaning
Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
inflate with air. - verb To
swell due toinjury orillness . - verb To become
proud . (Often written as puffed up with pride.)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb praise extravagantly
- verb to swell or cause to enlarge,
- verb become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
- verb make larger or distend
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Words with the same meaning
- 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
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