puff up

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Definition

  1. Verb (transitive):

    • To praise extravagantly or excessively: To speak about someone or something with exaggerated or overly enthusiastic praise, often to promote or inflate their perceived importance.
    • To cause to swell or enlarge: To make something, typically a part of the body or a material, become larger or distended, often due to air, fluid, or injury.

  2. Verb (intransitive):

    • To become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger: To experience a sudden increase in one's ego, self-importance, or indignation.
    • To become swollen or enlarged: To increase in size, often temporarily, due to internal pressure, injury, or an allergic reaction.
Examples of Usage

  • Verb (transitive):

    • The advertisement puffed up the benefits of the new supplement.
    • The frog puffed up its throat to make a loud croak.

  • Verb (intransitive):

    • He puffed up with pride when he received the award.
    • Her ankle puffed up after the fall.
Advanced Usage
  • "to be puffed up" (adjective phrase): Describing a state of being swollen with pride or arrogance, or physically swollen.
    • After his success, he became insufferably puffed up.
    • Her eyes were still puffed up from crying.
Variants and Related Words
  • Puffed-up (adjective): Swollen, especially with pride or self-importance; also physically distended.
    • He gave a puffed-up speech about his accomplishments.
  • Puff (verb/noun): The root word, meaning a short burst of air or smoke, or to emit such a burst.
Synonyms
  • Inflate: To fill with air or gas; to exaggerate.
  • Swell: To become larger or rounder in size, often from pressure.
  • Exaggerate: To represent something as greater than it is.
Related Phrasal Verbs
  • Puff out: Similar to 'puff up' in the sense of causing to swell, often used for chests or cheeks.
    • The bird puffed out its feathers to keep warm.
Related Idioms
  • "Puff up one's chest": To make one's chest expand, typically as a sign of pride, confidence, or aggression.
    • He puffed up his chest and declared he was not afraid.
Verb
  1. praise extravagantly
    • The critics puffed up this Broadway production
  2. become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
    • The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son
  3. to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"
    • puffed out chests
  4. make larger or distend
    • The estimates were puffed up

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