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Synonyms for puff up
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Princeton's WordNet
puff up(verb)
make larger or distend
"The estimates were puffed up"
puff, puff up, blow up, puff out(verb)
to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"
"puffed out chests"
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embellish, draw, heave, puff out, chuff, have kittens, flip one's wig, embroider, whiff, drag, detonate, puff, hit the roof, explode, huff, combust, flip one's lid, magnify, expand, amplify, pad, go ballistic, lard, fly off the handle, set off, lose one's temper, blow a fuse, enlarge, hit the ceiling, gasp, blow up, aggrandise, have a fit, dramatise, inflate, throw a fit, pant, aggrandize, dramatize, blow one's stack, swellswell, puff up(verb)
become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
"The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"
Synonyms:
swell up, blow up, well up, swell, puff out, tumefy, puff, intumesce, tumesce, wellpuff, puff up(verb)
praise extravagantly
"The critics puffed up this Broadway production"
Synonyms:
whiff, blow up, drag, heave, huff, chuff, swell, pant, puff out, gasp, draw, puff
How to use puff up in a sentence?
When you blast the pizza with high heat quickly, it allows the dough to puff up, and really replicates a Neapolitan-style pizza.
Translations for puff up
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- puhaltaa, ylpeys, täyttää, paisua, turvotaFinnish
- enfler, gonflerFrench
- sèidScottish Gaelic
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