| verb | smoke and exhale strongly “puff a cigar” |
| verb | suck in or take (air) “draw a deep breath” |
| verb | breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted “The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily” |
| verb | make proud or conceited “The sudden fame puffed her ego” |
| verb | praise extravagantly “The critics puffed up this Broadway production” |
| verb | speak in a blustering or scornful manner “A puffing kind of man” |
| verb | to swell or cause to enlarge, “Her faced puffed up from the drugs” |
| verb | blow hard and loudly “he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain” |
| adjective | gathered for protruding fullness “puff sleeves” |
| puff | noun | a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke) |
| puffing | noun | blowing tobacco smoke out into the air |
| drag | noun | a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke) |
| pant | noun | a short labored intake of breath with the mouth open |
| panting | noun | breathing heavily (as after exertion) |
| gasp | noun | a short labored intake of breath with the mouth open |
| heaving | noun | breathing heavily (as after exertion) |
| puffer | noun | any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers |
| huffing | noun | an act of forcible exhalation |