puffed (up)

verb

past tense of puff (up)
as in rolled up

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  1. rolled up
  2. blew up
  3. increased
  4. inflated
  5. distended
  6. built up
Verb
  • The Arizona native also gave fans a peek at her beauty routine, sharing a photo in which she was seen wearing yellow Rhode eye patches with her hair rolled up in curlers.
    — Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Decades later, Norton rolled up her sleeve to help test if a new kind of vaccine might protect her and her own children from cancer.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of rolled up
Verb
  • But last year, their relationship blew up amid a turf war over CPS employees.
    — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Israeli forces occupying the village of Zawtar al-Sharqiyah in southern Lebanon also blew up buildings including a municipal building and a children’s nursery, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of blew up
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  • Diagnoses of autism, a neurodevelopmental condition that affects how people communicate and behave, have increased roughly fivefold over the past couple of decades.
    — Amanda Seitz, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Confusion reigns Wright asserted that the seven-day average of oil flowing out of the Strait of Hormuz had increased to 9 million barrels per day.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of increased
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  • One practitioner found that calculating lifetime value only from surviving traders inflated the figure by up to two times.
    — Daniel Schlaepfer, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The Social Security Administration's Quick Calculator gives estimates for three different retirement ages, in today's dollars or inflated for future dollars.
    — Brian Sloan, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of inflated
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  • But the groaning synthesizer underneath her bashful smile tells you something is off — a crystalline tone now distended, unnerving.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026
  • Fiber slows gastric emptying, making the stomach more distended.
    — Amy Brownstein, Verywell Health, 27 May 2026
Definition of distended
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  • Chinese factories have built up the capacity to produce roughly 1,200 gigawatts of solar infrastructure annually—nearly double the amount installed worldwide last year.
    — Michael B. G. Froman, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2026
  • But criticism of the outdoor dining arrangements built up, with detractors saying the spots were unsightly, dirty, and harboring rats.
    — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of built up
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