Verb: puff up
- To swell or cause to enlarge
"Her faced puffed up from the drugs";
- puff, blow up, puff out
- Make larger or distend
"The estimates were puffed up"
- Become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
"The mother was puffing up with importance when she spoke of her son";
- swell
- Praise extravagantly
"The critics puffed up this Broadway production";
- puff
Derived forms: puffing up, puffs up, puffed up
Type of: acquit, act, amplify, bear, behave, blow up, carry, comport, conduct, deport, do, expand, inflate, intumesce, praise, puff, swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce