'puff up' definitions:
Definition of 'puff up'
(from WordNet)
verb
Make larger or distend; "The estimates were puffed up"
verb
To swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests" [syn: puff, puff up, blow up, puff out]
verb
Become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son" [syn: swell, puff up]
verb
Praise extravagantly; "The critics puffed up this Broadway production" [syn: puff, puff up]
Synonyms of 'puff up'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- add to,
- adulate,
- aggrandize,
- amplify,
- apotheosize,
- augment,
- balloon,
- belaud,
- bepraise,
- bless,
- bloat,
- blow up,
- boast of,
- brag about,
- broaden,
- build,
- build up,
- bulk,
- bulk out,
- celebrate,
- crescendo,
- cry up,
- deify,
- develop,
- dilate,
- distend,
- emblazon,
- enlarge,
- eulogize,
- exalt,
- expand,
- extend,
- extol,
- fill out,
- flatter,
- glorify,
- greaten,
- hero-worship,
- hike,
- hike up,
- huff,
- idolize,
- increase,
- inflate,
- laud,
- lionize,
- magnify,
- make much of,
- overpraise,
- panegyrize,
- pay tribute,
- porter aux nues,
- praise,
- puff,
- pump,
- pump up,
- raise,
- rarefy,
- salute,
- snowball,
- stretch,
- sufflate,
- swell,
- trumpet,
- tumefy,
- up,
- widen