单词 | puff up |
释义 | puff up (once / 5028 pages) v WORD FAMILY puff up: puffed up, puffing up, puffs up USAGE EXAMPLESBut the cloud now puffs up Amazon’s bottom line. Wall Street Journal(Nov 29, 2016) They like to puff up their feathers — or “display” — for visitors, the park says. Washington Post(Nov 23, 2016) I rushed to the mirror and saw that my lips and eyes had puffed up. The Guardian(Nov 18, 2016) 1v make larger or distend The estimates were puffed up Hyper amplify, blow up, expand, inflate exaggerate or make bigger 2v to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs" Syn|Hyper blow up, puff, puff out intumesce, swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce expand abnormally 3v become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger Syn|Hyper swell act, behave, do behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself 4v praise extravagantly Syn|Hyper puff praise express approval of |
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