puff out

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Verb puff out has 1 sense

puff, puff up, blow up, puff out - to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"
--₁ is one way to swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce
Sample sentence:
Did his feet puff out?

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Puff Out

Part of Speech: Phrasal verb

Definition: To cause something to appear larger or puffier; to swell or expand outward.

Sense 1: (transitive) When used as a phrasal verb with an object, it means to make something expand or increase in size.

Example sentence: After blowing air into the balloon, she watched it slowly puff out.

Sense 2: (intransitive) When used as a phrasal verb without an object, it means to expand or swell outward.

Example sentence: The actor took a deep breath before his big scene and let it out, causing his chest to puff out.

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