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puff out

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Verb1.puff out - to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests"
puff up, puff, blow up
swell up, tumesce, tumefy, intumesce, swell - expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
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? puff out
vt sep
(= expand) chest → herausstrecken, herausdrücken; cheeks → aufblasen; feathers → (auf)plustern; sail → blähen
(= emit) air, smoke → ausstoßen; words → hervorstoßen
(= blow out) → auspusten
(inf) always separate (= make out of breath) → außer Puste bringen (inf)
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