puffed
Verb
- smoke and exhale strongly
- suck in or take (air)
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
- make proud or conceited
- "The sudden fame puffed her ego"
- praise extravagantly
- "The critics puffed up this Broadway production"
- speak in a blustering or scornful manner
- to swell or cause to enlarge,
- "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"
- "puffed out chests"
- blow hard and loudly
- "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain"
- simple past and past participle of puff
Adjective Satellite
- gathered for protruding fullness
Adj
- Inflated or swollen.
- Consisting of a puff.
- Gathered up into rounded ridges.
- Expanded by the use of steam.
- Synonym of puffed out (panting from exercise)
Examples
- The dress had puffed sleeves.
Origin / Etymology
From puff + -ed.
Synonyms
blow up, chuff, drag, draw, gasp, heave, huff, pant, puff, puff out, puff up, whiff, puffed out
Scrabble Score: 15
puffed: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordpuffed: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
puffed: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary