puff sth up
— phrasal verb with puff uk/pʌf/us/pʌf/verb
to become larger or full of air, or to make something become larger in this way:
When the crust is golden and puffed up, take the pie out of the oven.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Becoming bigger
- accrue
- augment
- billow
- bloat
- broaden
- engorged
- enlarge
- enlargement
- expansion
- extend
- extension
- grow
- oak
- regenerate
- scalability
- scalable
- scaleable
- shoot
- stretch
- supersize
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Enlarging and inflating