puff up
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
make larger or distend
The estimates were puffed up
Types & categories
- inflate hypernym
Sense 2 verb
to swell or cause to enlarge,
Her faced puffed up from the drugs
Types & categories
- swell up hypernym
Related & opposite
- globefish derivation
Sense 3 verb
become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son
Types & categories
- behave hypernym
Sense 4 verb
praise extravagantly
The critics puffed up this Broadway production
Types & categories
- praise hypernym
Related & opposite
- puff derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | inflate |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | globefish |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | swell up |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | behave |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | puff |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | praise |