Synonyms: blow up, puff, puff out, puff up
Definition: to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"
Usage: puffed out chests
Similar words: intumesce, tumefy, tumesce, swell, swell up
Definition: expand abnormally
Usage: The bellies of the starving children are swelling
Synonyms: puff up
Definition: make larger or distend
Usage: The estimates were puffed up
Similar words: blow up, expand, amplify, inflate
Definition: exaggerate or make bigger
Usage: The charges were inflated
Definition: praise extravagantly
Usage: The critics puffed up this Broadway production
Similar words: praise
Definition: express approval of
Usage: The parents praised their children for their academic performance
Definition: become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
Usage: The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son
Similar words: act, behave, do
Definition: behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
Usage: You should act like an adult; Don't behave like a fool; What makes her do this way?; The dog acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people