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1. Make larger or distend
   "The estimates were puffed up"
    
2. To swell or cause to enlarge
   "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"
   - puff, blow up, puff out
    
3. Become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
   "The mother was puffing up with importance when she spoke of her son"
   - swell
    
4. Praise extravagantly
   "The critics puffed up this Broadway production"
   - puff

Derived forms: puffed up, puffing up, puffs up

Type of: act, amplify, behave, blow up, do, expand, inflate, intumesce, praise, swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce