| Definition of 'puff up' |
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1. (verb) puff up
make larger or distend
"The estimates were puffed up"
2. (verb) puff, puff up, blow up, puff out
to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"
"puffed out chests"
3. (verb) swell, puff up
become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
"The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"
4. (verb) puff, puff up
praise extravagantly
"The critics puffed up this Broadway production"
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Sense: to swell
Her eye (was all) puffed up after the wasp stung her.
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 Afrikaans: opswel |
 Arabic: يَنْتَفِخ |
 Bulgarian: надувам |
 Brazilian: inchar |
 Czech: otéci |
 German: schwellen |
 Danish: hæve |
 Greek: πρήζω, πρήζομαι |
 Spanish: hinchar |
 Estonian: üles paistetama |
 Farsi: پف کردن |
 Finnish: turvota |
 French: enfler |
 Hebrew: הִתנַפּחוּת |
 Hindi: फूलना या फुलाना |
 Hungarian: bedagad |
 Indonesian: membengkak |
 Icelandic: bólgna |
 Italian: gonfiarsi |
 Japanese: ふくらむ |
 Korean: 부어 오르다 |
 Lithuanian: ištinti |
 Latvian: uztūcis; piepampis |
 Malay: bengkak |
 Dutch: opzetten |
 Norwegian: hovne opp |
 Polish: spuchnąć |
 Persian: پف کردن |
 Pashto: پو |
 Portuguese: inchar |
 Romanian: a (se) umfla |
 Russian: распухать, вздуваться |
 Slovak: opuchnúť |
 Slovenian: napihniti (se) |
 Serbian: oteći |
 Swedish: svälla, svullna |
 Thai: พองขึ้น |
 Turkish: şişmek |
 Taiwanese: 腫脹 |
 Ukrainian: роздуватися; пухнути |
 Urdu: سوجنا، پھولنا |
 Vietnamese: sưng tấy |
 Chinese: 肿胀 |
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