puff up

Verb

• praise extravagantly
  • The critics puffed up this Broadway production
    

• become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
  • The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son
    

• to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"
  • puffed out chests
    

• make larger or distend
  • The estimates were puffed up
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  puff , swell , blow up , puff out