单词 | puff out |
释义 | puff out (once / 6880 pages) v WORD FAMILY puff out: puffed out, puffing out, puffs out USAGE EXAMPLESFather Amadi walked over to me, standing so close that I if I puffed out my belly, it would touch his body. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus(2003) And this week, he’ll be puffing out his chest again. New York Times(Nov 22, 2016) The portrait is tall and stately, its subject a distinguished gentleman who stands with chest puffed out, proudly. Los Angeles Times(Nov 17, 2016) v to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs" Syn|Hyper blow up, puff, puff up intumesce, swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce expand abnormally |
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