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puffing

 
Adjective puffing has 1 sense
  1. huffing, puffing, puffy - breathing heavily
    Antonyms: breathless, dyspneic, dyspnoeic, dyspneal, dyspnoeal (indirect, via breathing)
Noun puffing has 2 senses
  1. puffing - blowing tobacco smoke out into the air; "they smoked up the room with their ceaseless puffing"
    --1 is a kind of
    smoke, smoking
    Derived form: verb puff1
  2. puffing, huffing, snorting - an act of forcible exhalation
    --2 is a kind of exhalation, expiration, breathing out
    Derived forms: verb puff8, verb puff3
Verb puff has 8 senses
  1. puff, whiff - smoke and exhale strongly; "puff a cigar"; "whiff a pipe"
    --1 is one way to smoke
    Derived forms: noun puff7, noun puffing1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  2. puff, drag, draw - suck in or take (air); "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette"
    --2 is one way to inhale, inspire, breathe in
    Derived form: noun puff7
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s PP
  3. pant, puff, gasp, heave - breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; "The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily"
    --3 is one way to blow
    Derived forms: noun puff8, noun puffing2
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
  4. puff - make proud or conceited; "The sudden fame puffed her ego"
    --4 is one way to
    elate, lift up, uplift, pick up, intoxicate
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
  5. puff, puff up - praise extravagantly; "The critics puffed up this Broadway production"
    --5 is one way to praise
    Derived form: noun puff3
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
  6. puff - speak in a blustering or scornful manner; "A puffing kind of man"
    --6 is one way to
    boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
  7. puff, puff up, blow up, puff out - to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"
    --7 is one way to swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce
    Derived form: noun puffer2
    Sample sentence:
    Did his feet puff?
  8. puff, huff, chuff - blow hard and loudly; "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain"
    --8 is one way to blow
    Derived forms: noun puff8, noun puffing2
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
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