puff out

/pəf aʊt/
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Other forms: puffed out; puffing out; puffs out

Definitions of puff out
  1. verb
    to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"
    synonyms: blow up, puff, puff up
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    type of:
    intumesce, swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce
    expand abnormally
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