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Verb puff up has 4 senses
- puff up - make larger or distend; "The estimates were puffed up"
--1 is one way to inflate, blow up, expand, amplify
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- puff, puff up, blow up, puff out - to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"
--2 is one way to swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce
Sample sentence:
Did his feet puff up?
- swell, puff up - become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"
--3 is one way to act, behave, do
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- puff, puff up - praise extravagantly; "The critics puffed up this Broadway production"
--4 is one way to praise
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
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