puffed

• IPA^(key): /pʌft/

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• Rhymes: -ʌft

From puff + -ed.

puffed

1. simple past and past participle of puff

puffed (comparative more puffed, superlative most puffed)

1. Inflated or swollen.

   Synonyms: bulging, distended, tumid; see also Thesaurus:swollen

2. Gathered up into rounded ridges.

   The dress had puffed sleeves.

3. (of cereals) Expanded by the use of steam.
4. Consisting of a puff; exhaled or produced in puffs.

   the puffed smoke of a cigar

Shortened from puffed out.

puffed (comparative more puffed, superlative most puffed)

1. (colloquial) Synonym of puffed out (“panting from exercise”).

• depuff