Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun puffing

2 senses of puffing

Sense 1
puffing -- (blowing tobacco smoke out into the air; "they smoked up the room with their ceaseless puffing")
       => smoke, smoking -- (the act of smoking tobacco or other substances; "he went outside for a smoke"; "smoking stinks")

Sense 2
puffing, huffing, snorting -- (an act of forcible exhalation)
       => exhalation, expiration, breathing out -- (the act of expelling air from the lungs)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb puff

8 senses of puff

Sense 1
puff, whiff -- (smoke and exhale strongly; "puff a cigar"; "whiff a pipe")
       => smoke -- (inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes; "We never smoked marijuana"; "Do you smoke?")

Sense 2
puff, drag, draw -- (suck in or take (air); "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette")
       => inhale, inspire, breathe in -- (draw in (air); "Inhale deeply"; "inhale the fresh mountain air"; "The patient has trouble inspiring"; "The lung cancer patient cannot inspire air very well")

Sense 3
pant, puff, gasp, heave -- (breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; "The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily")
       => blow -- (exhale hard; "blow on the soup to cool it down")

Sense 4
puff -- (make proud or conceited; "The sudden fame puffed her ego")
       => elate, lift up, uplift, pick up, intoxicate -- (fill with high spirits; fill with optimism; "Music can uplift your spirits")

Sense 5
puff, puff up -- (praise extravagantly; "The critics puffed up this Broadway production")
       => praise -- (express approval of; "The parents praised their children for their academic performance")

Sense 6
puff -- (speak in a blustering or scornful manner; "A puffing kind of man")
       => boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade -- (show off)

Sense 7
puff, puff up, blow up, puff out -- (to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests")
       => swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce -- (expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling")

Sense 8
puff, huff, chuff -- (blow hard and loudly; "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain")
       => blow -- (exhale hard; "blow on the soup to cool it down")