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smoke and exhale strongly;
"puff a cigar"
"whiff a pipe"
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suck in or take (air);
"draw a deep breath"
"draw on a cigarette"
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breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted;
"The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily"
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make proud or conceited;
"The sudden fame puffed her ego"
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praise extravagantly;
"The critics puffed up this Broadway production"
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speak in a blustering or scornful manner;
"A puffing kind of man"
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to swell or cause to enlarge,
"Her faced puffed up from the drugs"
"puffed out chests"
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blow hard and loudly;
"he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain"