transitive (see also 3): To make larger in bulk, increase the size of, cause to expand; to enlarge morbidly, affect with tumour. Also with out, up.

transitive. To cause (something) to swell by directing air into it; to blow out or up, to inflate; to distend by inflation, or by stuffing…

transitive. To cause to bulge or swell out, make convex or protuberant; to cover with protuberances. In modern use chiefly transferred from 2 or 3.

transitive. To stretch forcibly, strain. To strain the capacity of, distend (a vessel, etc.). Also figurative. Obsolete.

To cause to swell up or bulge out; to swell.

transitive. To round or swell out. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To affect with a tympany (literal or figurative); to distend (the abdomen, etc.) with gas; to inflate, puff up (with pride, etc.).

transitive. To cause to swell; to swell, make tumid.

transitive. To swell, inflate, puff up or out. Chiefly in past participle hoved adj. = hoven, adj.

transitive. To inflate; to puff up, swell out.

transitive. ? To distend, fill out.

transitive with out: To make burly; to puff out.

To dilate, distend, or swell; to enlarge unduly.

transitive. To cause (something) to bulge or swell; to puff up, plump up. Also with up or out.