PUFFED UP Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

puffed (up)

verb

past tense of puff (up)

as in rolled up

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For this look, King rolled up the ends of her braids into a spiral to add texture and weight to her style.

— Kara Jillian Brown, InStyle, 9 July 2026
Until just this week, it had been kept rolled up and tucked away in a county fair building.

— Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 4 July 2026

Definition of rolled up

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But the gesture that surprised him most, Salazar said, may have been the time that one of Fanara’s cooks couldn’t get to work because his car’s engine blew up.

— Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
All the hype and pageantry of an impending Conor McGregor return to the UFC Octagon on Saturday night blew up in smoke within seconds.

— Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 12 July 2026

Definition of blew up

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Bike lane tickets increased to $250 after the 2022 death of 3-year-old Lily Grace Shambrook, who was killed in a traffic crash while riding on the back of her mother’s bike in Uptown.

— A.D. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2026
Researchers could not attribute increased or decreased beach erosion to higher global average temperatures.

— Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2026

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In addition to profiting from prostitution, the defendants collected payments on the victims’ inflated smuggling debts.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 16 July 2026
Turkey denies that the deaths constituted genocide, saying the toll has been inflated and that those killed were victims of civil war and unrest.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026

Definition of inflated

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The other major reason oil prices didn’t rise as high as feared is because China built up its storage stockpiles to all-time highs and dramatically cut down on its imports after the war began.

— Jordan Blum, Fortune, 9 July 2026
This is the first piece of hard news for a team that had built up quite a bit of momentum in recent months.

— Andrew Rice, New York Times, 31 May 2026

Definition of built up

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