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puffing |
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb puff Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb puff Entailment of verb puff 1 of 8 senses of puff Sense 2 puff, drag, draw => smoke Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Frequency) of verb puff 8 senses of puff Sense 1 puff, whiff => smoke Sense 2 puff, drag, draw => inhale, breathe in Sense 3 pant, puff, gasp, heave => blow Sense 4 puff => elate, lift up uplift, pick up intoxicate Sense 5 puff, puff up => praise Sense 6 puff => boast, tout, swash, shoot a line brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade Sense 7 puff, puff up blow up puff out => swell, swell up intumesce, tumefy Sense 8 puff, huff, chuff => blow Familiarity of verb puff puff used as a verb is common (polysemy count = 8) Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb puff Sense 1 puff, whiff => smoke -------------- Sense 2 puff, drag, draw => inhale, breathe in -------------- Sense 3 pant, puff, gasp, heave => blow -------------- Sense 4 puff => elate, lift up uplift, pick up intoxicate -------------- Sense 5 puff, puff up => praise -------------- Sense 6 puff => boast, tout, swash, shoot a line brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade -------------- Sense 7 puff, puff up blow up puff out => swell, swell up intumesce, tumefy -------------- Sense 8 puff, huff, chuff => blow -------------- Grep of noun puffing puffing Overview of noun puffing The noun puffing has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. puffing -- (blowing tobacco smoke out into the air; "they smoked up the room with their ceaseless puffing") 2. puffing, huffing, snorting -- (an act of forcible exhalation) Overview of verb puff The verb puff has 8 senses (first 3 from tagged texts) 1. (2) puff, whiff -- (smoke and exhale strongly; "puff a cigar"; "whiff a pipe") 2. (1) puff, drag, draw -- (suck in or take as of air; "draw a deep breath"; draw on a cigarette") 3. (1) pant, puff, gasp, heave -- (breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; "The runners reached the finish line panting heavily") 4. puff -- (make proud or conceited; "The sudden fame puffed her ego") 5. puff, puff up -- (praise extravagantly; "The critics puffed up this Broadway production") 6. puff -- (speak in a blustering or scornful manner; "A puffing kind of man") 7. puff, puff up blow up puff out -- (to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs") 8. puff, huff, chuff -- (blow hard and loudly) Overview of adj puffing The adj puffing has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts) 1. huffing, puffing, puffy -- (breathing heavily) Antonyms of adj puffing 1 sense of puffing Sense 1 huffing, puffing, puffy INDIRECT (VIA breathing) -> breathless, dyspneic, dyspnoeic, dyspneal, dyspnoeal Similarity of adj puffing 1 sense of puffing Sense 1 huffing, puffing, puffy => breathing (vs. breathless), eupneic, eupnoeic Attributes of adj puffing Familiarity of adj puffing puffing used as an adjective is very rare (polysemy count = 1) Grep of adj puffing puffing Overview of noun puffing The noun puffing has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. puffing -- (blowing tobacco smoke out into the air; "they smoked up the room with their ceaseless puffing") 2. puffing, huffing, snorting -- (an act of forcible exhalation) Overview of verb puff The verb puff has 8 senses (first 3 from tagged texts) 1. (2) puff, whiff -- (smoke and exhale strongly; "puff a cigar"; "whiff a pipe") 2. (1) puff, drag, draw -- (suck in or take as of air; "draw a deep breath"; draw on a cigarette") 3. (1) pant, puff, gasp, heave -- (breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; "The runners reached the finish line panting heavily") 4. puff -- (make proud or conceited; "The sudden fame puffed her ego") 5. puff, puff up -- (praise extravagantly; "The critics puffed up this Broadway production") 6. puff -- (speak in a blustering or scornful manner; "A puffing kind of man") 7. puff, puff up blow up puff out -- (to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs") 8. puff, huff, chuff -- (blow hard and loudly) Overview of adj puffing The adj puffing has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts) 1. huffing, puffing, puffy -- (breathing heavily)
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