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1. Gathered for protruding fullness
   "puffed sleeves";
   - puff
    
2. [Brit] Breathing heavily (as after exertion)
   - out of breath, breathless, gasping, short-winded

1. Smoke and exhale strongly
   "puff a cigar";
   - whiff
    
2. Suck in or take (air)
   - drag, draw
    
3. Breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
   "The runners reached the finish line, puffing heavily";
   - pant, gasp, heave
    
4. Make proud or conceited
   "The sudden fame puffed her ego"
    
5. Praise extravagantly
   "The critics puffed up this Broadway production";
   - puff up
    
6. Speak in a blustering or scornful manner
   "A puffing kind of man"
    
7. To swell or cause to enlarge
   "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests";
   - puff up, blow up, puff out
    
8. Blow hard and loudly
   "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain";
   - huff, chuff
    
9. Expand abnormally
   - swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce

See also: fancy

Type of: blow, bluster, boast, brag, breathe in, elate, expand, gas [informal], gasconade [archaic], inhale, inspire, intoxicate, lift up, pick up, praise, shoot a line [informal], skite [Austral, NZ, informal], smoke, swash [archaic], tout, uplift, vaunt

Encyclopedia: Puff, the Magic Dragon