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Puff out   /pəf aʊt/   Listen
Puff out

verb
1.
To swell or cause to enlarge,.  Synonyms: blow up, puff, puff up.  "Puffed out chests"






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"Puff out" Quotes from Famous Books



... present, but there is always the danger that it may spread, so you have done wisely to come to me. A little judicious treatment will soon set you right. Your waistcoat, please, but not your shirt. Puff out your chest and say ninety-nine in ...
— Round the Red Lamp - Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life • Arthur Conan Doyle

... later, perhaps an hour after midnight, at a time when she believed Hattie to be asleep, Lloyd, watchful as ever, noted that her cheeks began alternately to puff out and contract with her breathing. In an instant the nurse was on her feet. She knew the meaning of this sign. Hattie had fainted while asleep. Lloyd took the temperature. It was falling rapidly. The pulse was weak, rapid, and irregular. It seemed impossible ...
— A Man's Woman • Frank Norris



Words linked to "Puff out" :   swell up, puff up, tumesce, blow up, intumesce, tumefy, swell



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