transitive. To affect with such an emotion; to cause a sense of enlargement in; to puff up, inflate. Often in past participle (which may…

transitive. To cause to swell; to inflate; also figurative.

transitive. To blow or breathe into. to inflate, puff up.

figurative. To inflate or puff up (a person) with pride or vanity. Also absol. Obsolete.

transitive. To cause to swell or rise; figurative to puff up.

transitive. To cause (a person) to swell with vanity, pride, or self-importance, or (less commonly) with some other specified emotion, as rage…

To puff up (a person) with (also †by) high spirits, pride, etc.; to elate. Also absol.

transitive and intransitive = puff, v. (in various senses).

transitive. To affect with a tympany (literal or figurative); to distend (the abdomen, etc.) with gas; to inflate, puff up (with pride, etc.).

transitive. To leaven too much; to cause to rise or swell excessively. Chiefly figurative.

transitive. To inflate; to puff up, swell out.

transitive. To puff up, inflate, or elevate with pride. Obsolete.

transitive. To blow out, inflate, swell, make turgid. Also absol.