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puffed

adjective as in expanded

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"He got even more angry and puffed up a bit more and looked like he was actually going to chuck me in and my daughter," she said.

From BBC

In fact, both the NAR and its predecessor fringe movements going back to the 1940s have been formally denounced by other Christians, along lines that echo Paul’s denunciation of the Colossian heresies: “Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind.”

From Salon

Manchester City huffed and puffed before putting away Fulham and they always seem to ship a goal these days, but they have enough quality to win this very comfortably even if they can no longer keep a clean sheet.

From BBC

Harbaugh, trying to play the role of confident first-round draft pick, puffed his chest out and said no.

Evidence was offered to suggest that during the botched execution, Francis had experienced extreme pain, that his “lips puffed out and he groaned and jumped so that the chair came off the floor.”

From Slate

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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