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Puff Up (Verb)

Make larger or distend; "The estimates were puffed up".

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..

Become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son".

Verbs of political and social activities and events.

To swell or cause to enlarge; "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests".

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..

Praise extravagantly; "The critics puffed up this Broadway production".

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.