What is the meaning of the word "puff"?

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  1. a slow inhalation, as of tobacco smoke copy to clipboard noun
    • They took a puff on their pipe. copy to clipboard
  2. blow hard and loudly copy to clipboard verb
    • We huffed and puffed as we made our way up the mountain. copy to clipboard
  3. gathered for protruding fullness copy to clipboard adjective
    • puff sleeves copy to clipboard
  4. make proud or conceited copy to clipboard verb
    • The sudden fame puffed their ego. copy to clipboard
  5. praise extravagantly copy to clipboard verb
    • The critics puffed up this Broadway production copy to clipboard
  6. smoke and exhale strongly copy to clipboard verb
    • puff a cigar copy to clipboard
  7. speak in a blustering or scornful manner copy to clipboard verb
    • A puffing kind of man copy to clipboard
  8. to swell or cause to enlarge, 'Her faced puffed up from the drugs' copy to clipboard verb
    • puffed out chests copy to clipboard

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