PUFF (UP) Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

puff (up)

verb

Definition of puff (up)

as in to roll up

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Braelon Allen ran for a career-high 147 yards and had a touchdown on 21 carries as the Jets rolled up a season-best 166 yards on the ground.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
North Crowley rolled up 596 total yards with 482 coming through the air.

— Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of roll up

Verb

For example, adding things like brick powder to spices, or white powders to milk, to bulk them up.

— Lorena Galliot, Scientific American, 28 May 2026
His steals total was a bit misleading, and Kansas coach Bill Self will need to bulk him up and teach him more consistent defensive habits.

— Brendan Marks, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2026

Definition of bulk

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FinFETs helped manufacturers increase performance and energy efficiency across generations of smartphone, computer, and server processors.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2026
Those figures increase to 14 tons and 20 tons, respectively, for the larger 9×4 variant.

— Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of increase

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Since then, Europe has picked up the tab and Kyiv has built up its own defense industry at a rapid pace.

— Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
Frasers, which owns Sports Direct, Flannels and Frasers stores, is aggressive and often builds up large stakes in its suppliers, and tries to shake up management and supervisory boards in order to get the best possible trading terms for its stores.

— Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of build up

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But techno-skeptics have argued that warnings of doom are designed to inflate valuations and hype the technology.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
Two decades ago, as Colombia’s army fought powerful leftist guerrillas, soldiers killed around 7,000 civilians, dressing up and planting guns on the corpses to inflate enemy body counts, a tribunal later found.

— New York Times, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of inflate

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Wisconsin Democrat David Crowley defeated a Republican with close ties to Trump on Tuesday, rising from a childhood in one of the nation's poorest neighborhoods to become the first Black person to lead the battleground state.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2026
The Democrat went on to represent the area in Congress, rising to become Democratic caucus chair from 2013 to 2017.

— Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026

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