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puff

English

  1. 🔊 gathered for protruding fullness
    “puff sleeves”
  2. 🔊 a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
    “he took a puff on his pipe”
  3. 🔊 exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes)
  4. 🔊 a light inflated pastry or puff shell
  5. 🔊 a short light gust of air
  6. 🔊 forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
    “he gave his nose a loud blow”
  7. 🔊 a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers
  8. 🔊 thick cushion used as a seat
  9. 🔊 bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together
  10. 🔊 blow hard and loudly
    “he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain”
  11. 🔊 to swell or cause to enlarge
    “Her faced puffed up from the drugs”
  12. 🔊 speak in a blustering or scornful manner
    “A puffing kind of man”
  13. 🔊 praise extravagantly
    “The critics puffed up this Broadway production”
  14. 🔊 smoke and exhale strongly
    “puff a cigar”
  15. 🔊 suck in or take (air)
    “draw a deep breath”
  16. 🔊 make proud or conceited
    “The sudden fame puffed her ego”
  17. 🔊 breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
    “The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 bocanada puff
  2. 🔊 vaharada puff
  3. 🔊 bollo puff, tuft
  4. 🔊 calada puff, hit (of a cigarette)
  5. 🔊 resoplido puff, pant (short inhalation and exhalation, when out of breath or angry)

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