Verb puff up has 4 senses
  1. 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
  2. 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?
  3. 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
  4. 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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