- bloated, distended, puffed, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid - abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh"
Antonym: healthy (indirect, via unhealthy)
- puff, puffed - gathered for protruding fullness; "puff sleeves"
Antonym: plain (indirect, via fancy)
- puff, whiff - smoke and exhale strongly; "puff a cigar"; "whiff a pipe"
--1 is one way to smoke
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun puff7, noun puffing1
Somebody ----s something
- 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
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun puff7
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- 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
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun puff8, noun puffing2
Somebody ----s
- 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
- puff, puff up - praise extravagantly; "The critics puffed up this Broadway production"
--5 is one way to praise
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun puff3
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Somebody ----s somebody
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Something ----s something
- 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
- 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
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun puffer2
Did his feet puff?
- 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
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun puff8, noun puffing2
Somebody ----s
- puff, puff up - praise extravagantly; "The critics puffed up this Broadway production"